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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex bicolor
|accepted_authority=Allioni
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Pedem.
|place=2: 267. 1785
|year=1785
}}
|common_names=Carex bicolore
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Bicolores;Carex bicolor
|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. Bicolores]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex bicolor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 425
|treatment_page=page 426
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>erect or procumbent, to 20 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: blades 2–6 cm × 1–2.5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: proximal bracts scalelike or leaflike, sheathless or with sheaths to 5 mm; lateral spikes with 5–25 perigynia, usually fastigiate, occasionally proximal distant, dense, 5–12 × 3.5–5.5 mm; middle internodes 0.2–0.4 mm; terminal spike gynecandrous, usually less than 1/3 of flowers staiminate, sessile, 6–11 mm, 1.1–1.8 mm wide in staminate portion. <b>Pistillate</b> scales ascending, ovate-circular, 1.9–2.5(–3) × 1.1–1.7 mm, apex obtuse, sometimes slightly mucronate. <b>Staminate</b> scales usually black or, rarely, dark brown with green midvein and hyaline margins, oblong-ovate, 2–3.5 mm, apex obtuse. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, white, elliptic-ovate, 1.8–3 × 1–1.8 mm, densely papillose. <b>Achenes</b> obovate, 1.4–2 × 1–1.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = ca. 52.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Moist tundra, usually calcareous, rocks and soils
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Europe;Asia.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex bicolor
|authority=Allioni
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Moist tundra, usually calcareous, rocks and soils
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Pedem.
|publication year=1785
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_780.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Bicolores
|species=Carex bicolor
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