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|accepted_name=Carex petasata
|accepted_authority=Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=29: 246, plate W, fig. 72. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex liddonii
|authority=Boott
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex petasata
|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 petasata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 333, 334, 343, 356, 357, 358
|treatment_page=page 359
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 30–85 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped, prolonged more than 2.8 mm; distal ligules 2–5 mm; blades (2–)3–4 per fertile culm, 10–30(–40) cm × 2–4(–5) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> open, stiffly erect, green, gold, or pale brown, (2–)2.5–4.5(–6) cm × 9–16 mm; proximal internode 4.5–9 mm; 2d internode (2–)5–9(–11) mm; proximal bracts scalelike, awn shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> (3–)4–7, distant, distinct, fusiform, ovoid, or obovoid, 15–27 × 5.5–9 mm, base tapered to attenuate, apex acute or rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales whitish green or gold, with greenish to gold midstripe, lanceolate or ovate, 5.8–7.6 mm, ± equaling perigynia, concealing beaks, margin white, 0.2–0.7 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Staminate</b> scales with white-hyaline margin (0.2–)0.3–0.7 mm wide. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed to ascending, whitish green to brown, conspicuously 10–19-veined abaxially, conspicuously 4–10-veined adaxially, at least 3 adaxially veins longer than achene, lanceolate to ovate, plano-convex, 6–8 × 1.7–2.4 mm, 0.5–0.9 mm thick, margin flat, including wing (0.2–)0.3–0.5 mm wide, ciliate-serrulate at least distally; beak green, red-brown, brown, or gold, white-hyaline at tip, cylindric, unwinged, ± entire to 1 mm or flat, ± ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene (2.8–)3.2–4.6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2.2–3 × (1.1–)1.3–1.8 mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Dry to wet meadows, grasslands, open woods
|elevation=500 m to timberline
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;N.W.T.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>See comment under 125. <i>Carex xerantica</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex petasata
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex liddonii
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Dry to wet meadows, grasslands, open woods
|elevation=500 m to timberline
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;N.W.T.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1836
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex petasata
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