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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex aggregata
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=37: 246. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex agglomerata
|authority=Mackenzie
|publication_title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=33: 442. 1906,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex sparganioides var. aggregata
|authority=(Mackenzie) Gleason
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex aggregata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Carex sect. Phaestoglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex aggregata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 296
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> (20–)30–100 cm, 1.5–3.5 mm wide basally, 0.7–1.2 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths usually loose, proximal green-and-white-striped and green-and-white-mottled, with conspicous transverse veins on back, fronts white to hyaline, sometimes red dotted and transversely rugose, yellow or brown and thickened at mouth; ligules 1–4.5 mm, shorter than to as long as wide; widest leaf blades 3.5–5 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 5–10 spikes, (1.5–)2–5 cm × 8–13 mm; proximal internodes shorter than to as long as proximal spikes; proximal bracts to 3 cm; spikes with 5–15 ascending to spreading perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline or pale brown with green, 1–3-veined center, ovate, 2.2–3.5 × 1.2–1.8 mm, body 2/3 as long to almost length of perigynia, apex acuminate to short-awned. <b>Anthers</b> 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green to pale brown, veinless or weakly 2–5-veined abaxially, 3.4–4.6 × 1.9–2.8 mm, body somewhat spongy, thickened at base, margins serrulate distally; beak 0.7–1.4 mm, apical teeth 0.3–1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> circular to elliptic-circular, 1.8–2.1 × 1.6–1.8 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring.
|habitat=Meadows, thickets, open forests, usually on calcareous soils
|elevation=50–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Minn.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex aggregata</i> may be difficult to distinguish from <i>C. gravida</i> if the leaf sheaths are damaged or not visible on specimens.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex aggregata
|author=
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex sparganioides var. aggregata
|basionyms=Carex agglomerata
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring.
|habitat=Meadows, thickets, open forests, usually on calcareous soils
|elevation=50–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Minn.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1910
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_513.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex aggregata
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