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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex feta
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=20: 417. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex straminea var. mixta
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=22: 151. 1887,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex feta
|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. Ovales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex feta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 340, 359, 371
|treatment_page=page 360
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 51–97 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially green-veined nearly to collar, ± white-hyaline triangular area to 6 mm proximal to collar, firm, summits tinged brown, usually rounded, prolonged to 1.5–6 mm beyond collar; distal ligules (3–)4–8 mm; blades 3–4(–5) per fertile culm, 15–25(–45) cm × (2.5–)3–4(–5) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> proximal branches often bearing several spikes, green to pale brown, 3.5–8 cm × 10–13 mm; proximal internode 5–12 mm; 2d internode 4–11 mm; proximal bracts bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> (6–)8–12, distant, distinct, broadly ovoid, 11–18 × 6–8 mm, base attenuate, apex rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white-hyaline or pale gold, with green, gold, or brown midstripe, lanceolate to ovate, 2.7–3.5 mm, somewhat shorter and narrower than perigynia, apex obtuse or acute. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to ascending-spreading, white or gold conspicuously (1–)3–8-veined abaxially, conspicuously 1–7-veined adaxially, ovate to broadly ovate, flat or plano-convex, 3.2–4.2 × 1.7–2.1 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.3–0.5(–0.6) mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least distally; beak white or gold at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture inconspicuous or with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene (1.5–)1.8–2.4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate to obovate, (1.3–)1.5–1.8 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 66.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Meadows, forest edges, stream banks, wet soils
|elevation=30–2400 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Carex feta
|author=
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex straminea var. mixta
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Meadows, forest edges, stream banks, wet soils
|elevation=30–2400 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1893
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex feta
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