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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex ozarkana
|accepted_authority=P. E. Rothrock & Reznicek
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=48: 104, figs. 1, 2. 1996
|year=1996
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex ozarkana
|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 ozarkana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 255, 337, 367
|treatment_page=page 368
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose in small clumps. <b>Culms</b> (35–)45–95(–110) cm; vegetative culms inconspicuous. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths sometimes abaxially green and white mottled near to collar, adaxially green-veined near collar, Y-shaped, white-hyaline area at collar, adaxially firm, summits U-shaped; distal ligules 2–5.5 mm; blades on fertile culms 3–5, 1.5–24 cm × 1.8–4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> open or dense, usually nodding or arching, yellowish brown, 2.3–8.4 cm × 6–17 mm; proximal internode 2.3–16 mm; 2d internode 6–15 mm; proximal bracts bristlelike to 3 cm. <b>Spikes</b> (3–)5–8(–9), distant, distinct, conic to globose, 8–19 × 4.2–8.2 mm, base often strongly clavate, apex acute to rounded; staminate portion of well-developed spikes to 11 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales yellowish brown to reddish brown with green midstripe, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 3–4 mm, shorter and narrower than perigynia, margins white-hyaline, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed, pale yellow or golden brown with green wing and beak, conspicuously 4–6-veined abaxially, conspicuously 4–6(–7)-veined adaxially, obovate to broadly elliptic, biconvex, 3–4.7 × 1.9–2.8 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.5–0.9 mm wide; beak greenish at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with white or reddish brown-hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.8–2.7 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic, 1.4–2 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, 48b apiculum 0.4–0.8 mm; style straight or slightly sinuous. <b>2n</b> = 62.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Seepy stream banks, permanently wet ditches, pond shores, wet depressions in meadows and pastures
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>See note under 146. <i>Carex longii</i>.</p>
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name=Carex ozarkana
|author=
|authority=P. E. Rothrock & Reznicek
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Seepy stream banks, permanently wet ditches, pond shores, wet depressions in meadows and pastures
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;La.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1996
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex ozarkana
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