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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex leptopoda
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie in P. A. Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in P. A. Rydberg, Fl. Rocky Mts.,
|place=124, 1060. 1917
|year=1917
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex deweyana subsp. leptopoda
|authority=(Mackenzie) Calder & Roy L. Taylor
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex deweyana var. leptopoda
|authority=(Mackenzie) B. Boivin
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Deweyanae;Carex leptopoda
|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. Deweyanae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex leptopoda]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 322, 324
|treatment_page=page 323
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely to densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 21–67 cm × 0.7–1.4 mm, smooth or papillose. <b>Leaves</b>: ligule of distal leaf (2.5–)3.4–6.8(–7.4) mm, 1.5–3 times as long as wide; blades 2.4–5.9 mm wide, widest blade 2.8–5.9 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> (17–)34–43(–68) mm; proximal internode 4.1–16(–40) mm; proximal bract (11–)16–26(–61) mm, awn (9–)13–23(–59) mm; spikes 5–7, usually gynecandrous; proximal spikes with 2 staminate and 11–23 pistillate flowers, 8–15 × 3.3–5.8 mm; terminal spikes usually with 2–4 staminate and 16–20 pistillate flowers, 9–12.7 × 4.2–5.7 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales with whitish to stramineous margins, 2.6–3.3 × 1.2–1.8 mm, body (2.3–)2.7–3.8, apex acuminate to short-awned, awn to 0.7 mm. <b>Staminate</b> scales with whitish to stramineous margins, 1.9–2.8 × 1–1.3 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 1.8–1.9 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to erect, green to pale brown, 0–3-veined abaxially, prominently to weakly 0–2-veined adaxially, ovate to narrowly ovate, 3.3–3.9(–4.4) × 1.1–1.5 mm, 2.3–3 times as long as wide, apex abruptly contracted to gradually tapering; beak 0.9–1.5(–1.7) mm, (0.28–)0.3–0.38 times as long as perigynia, margins serrulate, apex entire or bidentulate, teeth to 0.3 mm, 0–0.08 times as long as perigynia. <b>Stigmas</b> 1.3–1.8 mm. <b>Achenes</b> 1.5–1.8(–1.9) × 0.9–1.4 mm, 1.2–1.5(–1.7) times as long as wide. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Mesic to wet forests, forest edges, especially near streams
|elevation=0–2500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex leptopoda
|authority=Mackenzie in P. A. Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex deweyana subsp. leptopoda;Carex deweyana var. leptopoda
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Mesic to wet forests, forest edges, especially near streams
|elevation=0–2500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=in P. A. Rydberg, Fl. Rocky Mts.,
|publication year=1917
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Deweyanae
|species=Carex leptopoda
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