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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex ruthii
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|place=18: 112. 1931
|year=1931
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex muricata var. ruthii
|authority=(Mackenzie) Gleason
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Stellulatae;Carex ruthii
|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. Stellulatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex ruthii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 326, 328
|treatment_page=page 329
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>(23–)30–100 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 3–7 per culm; sheaths tight, inner band hyaline or straw colored, 6–18 cm, apex concave, glabrous; ligules rounded, 1–2.5 mm; blades plicate, 30–70 cm × 1.6–5 mm, widest leaf (2.6–)2.9–5 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> (2.2–)3–8.5 cm; spikes 3–8; lateral spikes 3.6–11.2 mm, sessile, pistillate or gynecandrous, staminate portion 2-flowered, to 1 mm, pistillate portion 6–28-flowered, 3.6–11.2 mm; basal 2 spikes (5–)10–40 mm apart; terminal spike 7–15.5 mm, gynecandrous with staminate portion 3–14-flowered, 2–11(–14) × 0.8–1.6 mm and pistillate portion 10–25-flowered, 4.1–8 × 6.1–7.7 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales ovate, 1.4–2.2 × 1.1–2 mm, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales narrowly ovate, 1.6–2.4 × 1.1–1.9 mm, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Anthers</b> 0.8–1.45 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading to reflexed, olive green, 6–14-veined abaxially, 0–5-veined adaxially, broadly to narrowly ovate, (2.8–)3–4.4 × 1.3–1.9(–2.1) mm, (1.6–)1.8–2.5 times as long as wide; beak 0.9–1.75 mm, 0.43–0.85 length of body, serrulate, teeth 0.15–0.35 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate, 1.1–1.8 × 0.9–1.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Boggy meadows, open or wooded stream banks, springheads, seeps
|elevation=700–1900 m
|distribution=Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex ruthii
|author=
|authority=Mackenzie in N. L. Britton et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex muricata var. ruthii
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Boggy meadows, open or wooded stream banks, springheads, seeps
|elevation=700–1900 m
|distribution=Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|publication year=1931
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Stellulatae
|species=Carex ruthii
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