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|accepted_name=Carex tincta
|accepted_authority=(Fernald) Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=15: 186. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|common_names=Carex coloré
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex mirabilis var. tinca
|authority=Fernald
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=37: 473. 1902
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex tincta
|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 tincta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 336, 339, 371
|treatment_page=page 370
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose; rhizomes appearing elongate in old clumps. <b>Culms</b> typically (3–)5–9 per clump, 25–85(–150) cm; vegetative culms inconspicuous, usually fewer than 10 leaves clustered at apex, not strikingly 3-ranked. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths with adaxial hyaline area, not mottled abaxially, frequently puckered or cross-corrugated, summits truncate or U-shaped, rarely slightly V-shaped, at most shortly prolonged beyond collar, papillose (at 30X); distal ligules 1.5–3.5 mm; blades 2–4 per fertile culm, 10–28(–40) cm × 2–4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect, compact on tallest culms, dense, brown, 1.2–2.5(–3.5) cm × 8–12(–15) mm; proximal internode 1.5–6(–10) mm; 2d internode 2–3.5 mm. <b>Spikes</b> 4–11, ± overlapping, ellipsoid or globose, 5.5–10 × 3.6–6.5 mm, base usually acute, apex rounded to broadly acute; proximal bracts scalelike, often with bristle tips shorter than inflorescences. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown or dark brown, ovate to lanceolate, 2.4–3.5 mm, at least slightly shorter than perigynium beaks, narrower than perigynia, apex acute or somewhat obtuse. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading to ascending-spreading, tan to brown at maturity, contrasting with scales while maturing, conspicuously at least 4–8-veined abaxially, 3–7-veined adaxially, broadly ovate, plano-convex, 3.5–4.5(–4.7) × (1.4–)1.6–2.4 mm, 0.45–0.6 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.25–0.45 mm wide, smooth; beak golden to dark brown tinged at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with golden to dark brown hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.7–2.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate to broadly elliptic, 1.3–1.6 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.4–0.55 mm thick. n = 36+IV.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Dry to seasonally moist grassy meadows, roadsides, open woods
|elevation=80–400 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Ill.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;Vt.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>K. K. Mackenzie (1931–1935, parts 2–3, pp. 117–173) and F. J. Hermann (1970) reported <i>Carex tincta</i> from Alberta, Canada. Those specimens are apparently congested inflorescence forms of <i>C. tenera </i>var.<i> tenera</i>. Hermann also reported C. tinta from Montana and Washington, but the specimens also appear to be misidentifications. Specimens named <i>C. tincta</i> from British Columbia proved to be <i>C. bebbii</i> or <i>C. feta</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Although common in parts of New England and the Canadian maritimes, <i>Carex tincta</i> is rare and local in much of its range, especially westward in the Great Lakes region.</p><!--
--><p>A site in Penobscot County, Maine, contained <i>Carex tincta</i>, <i>C. tenera</i>, and sterile putative hybrid individuals.</p>
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name=Carex tincta
|authority=(Fernald) Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex mirabilis var. tinca
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Dry to seasonally moist grassy meadows, roadsides, open woods
|elevation=80–400 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Ill.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1913
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex tincta
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