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|accepted_name=Carex muskingumensis
|accepted_authority=Schweinitz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|place=1: 66. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex muskingumensis
|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 muskingumensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 337, 364
|treatment_page=page 365
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 40–100 cm; vegetative culms conspicuous, with spreading leaf blades evenly along stem. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially green-veined to within 3 mm of collar, adaxially firm, summits usually brown tinged, U- or V-shaped, thick; distal ligules to 2 mm; blades 7–12 per fertile culm, 12–25 cm × 3–5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> open at least proximally, brown, (4–)5–9 cm × 10–20 mm; proximal internode (4–)5–15 mm; 2d internode (3–)5–11 mm; proximal bracts scalelike. <b>Spikes</b> 5–12, distant, distinct, lanceoloid, 12–28 × 3.5–7 mm, bases tapered, apex acute. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white-hyaline or pale brown with pale brown midstripe, oblong-ovate, 4–5 mm, 1/2 length of and narrower than perigynia, apex acute. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed-erect, pale brown, conspicuously 5–7-veined abaxially, conspicuously 3–7-veined adaxially, lanceolate, flat to plano-convex, 6–9 × (1.5–) 2–2.5 mm, 0.3 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.4 mm wide; beak tip flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 3.1–4.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elongate-oblong, 2–2.7 × 0.8–0.9 mm, 0.3 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 80.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet, deciduous flood plains, lowland woods, and thickets
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Ohio;Okla.;Tenn.;Wis.
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name=Carex muskingumensis
|author=
|authority=Schweinitz
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet, deciduous flood plains, lowland woods, and thickets
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Ohio;Okla.;Tenn.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|publication year=1824
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex muskingumensis
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