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|accepted_name=Carex panicea
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 977. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Paniceae;Carex panicea
|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. Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex panicea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 427, 429
|treatment_page=page 430
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>colonial, long-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> (0.8–)14–75 cm, smooth distally. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal sheaths with blades, pale brown, 3–6 mm thick; ligules 0.4–3.5(–8.5) mm, usually wider than long; leaf blades somewhat glaucous, flat, 5.5–33 cm × 1.4–4.7 mm, folded at bases, margins revolute, herbaceous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3.2–21 cm, 1.7–3.5(–4.3) times as long as proximal bract; proximal bract (1.3–)2–9 cm, sheath 0.5–2.4 cm, blade 1.1–7.1 cm; pistillate spikes densely flowered, ovoid to cylindric, 0.8–2.9 cm × 4.5–7.5 mm; lateral spikes erect or ascending on stiff peduncles. <b>Pistillate</b> scales dark reddish purple with hyaline margins, green centers, apex obtuse, centers papillose. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, yellowish green to brown, often suffused with reddish purple, broadly obovoid, 2.6–5.1 × 1.4–2.4 mm; beak minute, sharply bent. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, 1.8–2.9 × 1.3–1.9 mm. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Wet to dry, usually sandy, acidic fields
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Greenland;St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;R.I.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex panicea</i> is introduced into continental North America and native to Greenland; however, some people believe that the taxon was introduced to the New World by the Vikings.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex panicea
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Wet to dry, usually sandy, acidic fields
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Greenland;St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;R.I.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Paniceae
|species=Carex panicea
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