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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex festucacea
|accepted_authority=Schkuhr ex Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 242. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex festucacea
|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 festucacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 335, 336, 339, 369, 370
|treatment_page=page 373
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 45–100 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, usually fewer than 15 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked, leaves clustered at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths green or with white intervenal areas, often adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped or prolonged to 2 mm beyond collar; sheaths finely papillose or smooth; distal ligules 1–3 mm; blades 3–5 per fertile culm, 15–30 cm × 1–3.5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> arching or nodding, ± open, green to light brown, 2.5–6 cm × 4.5–11 mm; proximal internode 3–18 mm; 2d internode 3–13 mm; proximal bracts scalelike or with bristle tips shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 3–10, distinct, ellipsoid to globose, 6–16 × 5–6.5 mm, base acute to attenuate, apex rounded; terminal spike with conspicuous staminate base. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white-hyaline with white, green, or gold center, broadly lanceolate, 2.3–3.8 mm, shorter than and narrower than perigynia, apex acute. <b>Anthers</b> 1–2.1 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> (20–)25–60 in larger spikes, spreading, pale green to yellowish brown, conspicuously 5-veined or more abaxially, veinless or mostly indistinctly or basally 2–4(–6)-veined adaxially, orbiculate to elliptic, plano-convex, 2.5–4.2 × 1.5–2.3(–2.5) mm, 0.4–0.6 mm thick, nearly leathery, margin flat, including wing 0.3–0.6 mm wide, smooth; beak green or light brown at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with conspicuous white-hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 0.8–1.7(–2) mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate, 1.2–1.8 × 1–1.3 mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick; style sometimes abaxially-adaxially bent at base. <b>2n</b> = 68, 70.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Wet or seasonally wet places, poorly drained fields, open woods
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex festucacea</i> is often confused with 148. <i>C. albolutescens</i>; see note under that species.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex festucacea
|authority=Schkuhr ex Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Wet or seasonally wet places, poorly drained fields, open woods
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_659.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex festucacea
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