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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex suberecta
|accepted_authority=(Olney) Britton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Man. Fl. N. States ed.
|place=2, 1057. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex tenera var. suberecta
|authority=Olney
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Caric. Bor.-Amer.,
|publication_place=3. 1871
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex suberecta
|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 suberecta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 367
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose; rhizomes appearing elongate in old clumps. <b>Culms</b> uniformly slender, 40–80 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, usually fewer than 15 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially conspicuously green-veined nearly to collar, narrow hyaline band or sharp Y-shaped region at collar, adaxially firm, summits U-shaped; distal ligules 1.6–3.3 mm; blades 2–5 per fertile culm, 12–18 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> stiffly erect, dense to slightly open, brown, 1.5–3(–3.5) cm × 6–14 mm; proximal internode 2–12 mm; 2d internode 2–7 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, often with bristletips shorter than or equaling inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 2–5, distant, distinct, ovoid, 7–12 × 4–7 mm, base rounded or short-acute, apex acute. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown, 1-veined midstripe sometimes pale, broadly lanceolate, 2.7–3.6 mm, shorter and narrower than perigynia, apex firm, acute to acuminate. <b>Perigynia</b> 15–80 in larger spikes, appressed, usually golden brown, conspicuously 6–9-veined abaxially, inconspicuously veined adaxially, diamond shaped, flat except over achene, 4–5 × 2–2.8 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, base subacute or acute, margin flat, including wing 0.6–0.9 mm wide, smooth; beak apprressed, golden brown at tip, flat, 0.7–1.6(–1.8) mm, 2/5+ length of body, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with hyaline, golden brown margin, distance from beak tip to achene 2–3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic to ovate, 1.5–1.7 × 0.8–1.1 mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Calcareous fens and seeps, shores, swales
|elevation=100–600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Ohio;Tex.;Va.;Wis.;W.Va.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Carex suberecta
|authority=(Olney) Britton
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex tenera var. suberecta
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Calcareous fens and seeps, shores, swales
|elevation=100–600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Ohio;Tex.;Va.;Wis.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Man. Fl. N. States ed.
|publication year=1905
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex suberecta
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