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|accepted_name=Carex praegracilis
|accepted_authority=W. Boott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Gaz.
|place=9: 87. 1884
|year=1884
}}
|common_names=Carex très grêle
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Divisae;Carex praegracilis
|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. Divisae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex praegracilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 280, 303, 304, 306
|treatment_page=page 305
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>coarse, 1.8–3 mm thick, typically with long, unbranched segments from which shoots arise singly every few nodes. <b>Culms</b> sharply trigonous, (10–)25–80(–100) cm, scabrous-angled distally. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths dark brown to nearly black; sheaths with hyaline inner band, apex not prolonged, glabrous; ligules 0.6–2.6 mm; blades 1–3(–3.5) mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> elongate, 0.9–4 cm; spikes 5–18(–25), usually unisexual; staminate spikes lanceoloid; pistillate spikes ovoid. <b>Pistillate</b> scales straw colored to pale reddish brown, with hyaline margins, ovate, apex acute to acuminate-awned, dull to ± satiny. <b>Anthers</b> (1.8–)2.2–3.9 mm, apiculus bristly hairy (30X). <b>Perigynia</b> brown to nearly black at maturity, essentially veinless, usually stipitate, ovate, plano-convex, (2.2–)2.6–3.7 × 1.2–1.9 mm, dull; beak 0.7–1.2 mm, 1/4–1/2 length of body, apex ± hyaline, obscurely bidentate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting May–Aug.
|habitat=Wet to seasonally dry meadows, prairies, stream banks, lakeshores, springheads and seeps, openings in woodlands, ditches, roadsides, tolerant of alkaline soils
|elevation=0–3400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex praegracilis</i> is extensively and recently spreading east of its native range, especially along expressways to which road salt is applied in winter (A. A. Reznicek and P. M. Catling 1987).</p>
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name=Carex praegracilis
|author=
|authority=W. Boott
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting May–Aug.
|habitat=Wet to seasonally dry meadows, prairies, stream banks, lakeshores, springheads and seeps, openings in woodlands, ditches, roadsides, tolerant of alkaline soils
|elevation=0–3400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Gaz.
|publication year=1884
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_532.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Divisae
|species=Carex praegracilis
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