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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex merritt-fernaldii
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=49: 370. 1923
|year=1923
}}
|common_names=Carex de Fernald
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex brevior var. pseudofestucacea
|authority=Farwell
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex merritt-fernaldii
|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 merritt-fernaldii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 339
|treatment_page=page 374
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose; rhizomes appearing elongate only in old clumps. <b>Culms</b> 30–100 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, with fewer than 15(–17) leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped to truncate, sometimes prolonged 1–2 mm beyond collar, not puckered, finely papillose; distal ligules 2.5–4.8 mm; blades 3–6 per fertile culm, 14–32 cm × 1.5–3 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> compact to open, occasionally elongate and arching or nodding, reddish brown or straw colored, 1.5–5 cm × 7–15 mm; proximal internode 5–15 mm; 2d internode 3–7 mm; proximal bracts scalelike with bristle tips shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> (4–)6–8(–10), distinct, ovoid, 7–15 × 5–9 mm, base rounded, apex rounded or nearly acute. <b>Pistillate</b> scales light yellow-brown with paler midvein, lance-subulate or lanceolate, occasionally broadly lanceolate, (3.2–)3.4–3.8(–4.2) mm, 0.2–1.3 mm shorter than perignyium beaks, narrower than perigynia, margins white-hyaline, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, apex acute. <b>Anthers</b> 1.3–2.6 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 15–80 in larger spikes, ascending, light green to straw colored, conspicuously 5–9-veined abaxially, veinless or faintly 1–5-veined adaxially, broadly ovate to ovate-orbiculate, plano-convex, 3.3–5 × 2.3–3.5 mm, 0.5–0.8 mm thick, irregular, margin flat, including wing 0.4–0.8 mm wide, with 1–2 veins in yellowish wing, smooth; beak red-brown at tip, flat, 0.7–1.6(–1.8) mm, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture ± conspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 1.8–3.1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate or orbiculate, 1.4–1.8 × 1.1–1.5 mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 70, 74.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Dry sands, gravels, rocky places, meadows, roadsides, on acidic substrates
|elevation=50–600 m
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Ohio;Vt.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex merritt-fernaldii
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex brevior var. pseudofestucacea
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Dry sands, gravels, rocky places, meadows, roadsides, on acidic substrates
|elevation=50–600 m
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Ohio;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1923
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_663.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex merritt-fernaldii
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