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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex striatula
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 173. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Laxiflorae;Carex striatula
|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. Laxiflorae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex striatula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 433, 434, 454
|treatment_page=page 436
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>densely tufted, central or lateral, ascending or slightly decumbent, 45–62 cm × 0.5–1 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths tan or light brown; sheaths green, sometimes glaucous, 4–88 mm; blades green, sometimes glaucous, midrib and 2 lateral veins developed, flat or slightly corrugate, 30–46 cm × 3–14 mm, blades of overwintering leaves smooth or, rarely, sparsely papillose abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of proximal spikes 0–5 cm, arising from proximal 1/3 of culms, 1.4–3.3(–5.3) times as long as spikes they subtend; of terminal spikes 0.4–12 cm. <b>Bracts</b> 0.6–14 cm × 0.8–6 mm, bract blades of distal lateral spikes linear, narrower than spikes, widest bract blade of distalmost lateral spike 0.5–3.4 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> 3(–4) per culm; lateral spikes 22–62 × 3–5 mm; distal lateral spikes separate; terminal spike linear to linear-clavate, 22–32(–36) × 2–3 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 3.4–5 × 1.2–2.2 mm, apex aristate, apiculate, or acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales oblong-ovate, 3–5 × 1.2–2 mm, margins hyaline or, occasionally, light brown, apex obtuse or acute. <b>Anthers</b> 3–3.2 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 6–18 per spike, scattered to loosely overlapping, ratio of longer lateral spike length to perigynia number 1.9–3.4, ascending, finely, conspicuously (22–)25–32-veined, elongate, (3.4–)3.9–5.1 × 1.2–2 mm; beak straight or slightly curved, 0.6–1.7 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elongate-obovoid, 2.2–2.8(–4.6) × 1–1.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36, 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Dry to moist ravine slopes, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
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name=Carex striatula
|author=
|authority=Michaux
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|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
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|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Dry to moist ravine slopes, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Laxiflorae
|species=Carex striatula
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