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|accepted_name=Carex hitchcockiana
|accepted_authority=Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=10: 274, plate E, fig. 17. 1826
|year=1826
}}
|common_names=Carex de Hitchcock
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex oligocarpa var. hitchcockiana
|authority=(Dewey) Kükenthal
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Griseae;Carex hitchcockiana
|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. Griseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex hitchcockiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 452
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose; rhizome internodes 1.8–2.5 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> yellow-brown to dark brown at base, 15–60 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths hispidulous; blades green, widest blades (3–)3.4–5.4(–6.5) mm wide, glabrous abaxially or sparsely hispidulous on midrib. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.19–0.48 of culm height; peduncles of lateral spikes smooth or barely scaberulous; peduncles of terminal spikes (4.2–)7.5–37(–43) mm, much exceeding lateral spikes; proximal bract with sheath tight, abaxially scabrous, sheath front apex convex, elongated (0.6–)1.6–4.9(–6.6) mm beyond apex; ligules 3.3–5 mm; distal bract usually much exceeding terminal spike. <b>Spikes</b> 3–5, separate or distal 2–4 spikes overlapping; lateral spikes pistillate, with 2–7 perigynia, 6–29 × 3.8–6.8 mm, ratio of spike length (in mm) to flower number = 3.5–4.8; longest terminal spikes 14–34(–42) × 1.3–3(–3.5) mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales (4.1–)5.6–9.4(–11.6) × 1.6–2.6(–3.3) mm, margins whitish, denticulate, apex with awn 1.1–6.8 mm. <b>Staminate</b> scales 5.2–6.9 × 1.5–1.7 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 3.4–4.2 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> distichously imbricate, 52–59-veined, unwrinkled, obovoid or narrowly obovoid, obtusely triangular in cross section, (4.5–)4.6–5.6(–6.2) × 1.9–2.2(–2.3) mm, (2.1–)2.3–2.8(–3) times as long as wide, dull, base gradually tapered, apex abruptly contracted; beak excurved, (0.5–)0.8–1.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid-ellipsoid, 3.2–3.9(–4.2) × (1.6–)1.8–2.1 mm, tightly enveloped by perigynia; stipe bent 45–70°, 0.4–0.6 mm; beak bent more than 90°, 0.3–0.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Mesic, usually rocky, deciduous forests, usually with highly diverse vascular plant communities, often in calcium-rich loams on slopes above streams
|elevation=60–800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex hitchcockiana</i> is infrequent and local. It often grows with <i>C. albursina</i>, <i>C. jamesii</i>, and <i>C. oligocarpa</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex hitchcockiana
|author=
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex oligocarpa var. hitchcockiana
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Mesic, usually rocky, deciduous forests, usually with highly diverse vascular plant communities, often in calcium-rich loams on slopes above streams
|elevation=60–800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1826
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_830.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Griseae
|species=Carex hitchcockiana
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