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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex silicea
|accepted_authority=Olney
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=7: 393. 1868
|year=1868
}}
|common_names=Carex silicicole
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex silicea
|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 silicea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 334, 337, 367
|treatment_page=page 369
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 15–85 cm; vegetative culms inconspicuous. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths conspicuously green-veined adaxially nearly to collar, narrow hyaline band or sharp Y-shaped region at collar, adaxially firm, summits truncate, prolonged 1–4 mm beyond collar, lateral auricles usually present, finely papillose (30X); distal ligules 1.2–3.5 mm; blades 2–4 per fertile culm, ± whitish green, 10–25 cm × 1–5 mm, stiff. <b>Inflorescences</b> arching or nodding, open, silvery green, (2.5–)4–8 cm × 5–12 mm; proximal internode 5–22 mm; 2d internode 6–19 mm; proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 3–7(–12), distant, distinct, ellipsoid, (5–)10–20 × 4–8 mm, bases clavate, apex acute to obtuse; staminate portion of well-developed spikes 2–11 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white-hyaline, with green to gold midstripe, ovate, 4–5.2 mm, as long as and narrower than perigynia, margins frequently involute, apex acute; staminate scales with apex acute. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed, light brown, conspicuously 6–12-veined abaxially, conspicuously 3–5-veined adaxially, obovate to elliptic, somewhat concavo-convex, 3.5–5 × 2–3.2 mm, 0.5–0.6 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.5–0.8 mm wide, somewhat papillose; beak light brown at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with conspicuous white-hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic, 1.6–1.8 × 1–1.2 mm, 0.5–0.6 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 74, 76.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Coastal sand and gravel flats and dunes
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;R.I.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex silicea
|author=
|authority=Olney
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Coastal sand and gravel flats and dunes
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;R.I.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1868
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex silicea
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