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|accepted_name=Carex glaucodea
|accepted_authority=Tuckerman ex Olney
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=7: 395. 1868
|year=1868
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex flaccosperma var. glaucodea
|authority=(Tuckerman ex Olney) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Griseae;Carex glaucodea
|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. Griseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex glaucodea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 442, 449, 458, 460
|treatment_page=page 457
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose; rhizome internodes 1.2–2.8 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> yellow-brown at base, 10–50 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glabrous; blades glaucous, widest blades (5.1–)5.7–10.8 mm wide, smooth abaxially or sparsely antrorsely scaberulous on main veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.56–1 of culm height; peduncles of lateral smooth; peduncles of terminal spikes (0.5–)1.6–15(–31) mm, barely to much exceeding lateral spikes; proximal bract sheath loose, abaxially glabrous, sheath front apex truncate; ligules 5.2–10 mm; distal bract slightly shorter than to much exceeding terminal spike. <b>Spikes</b> 3–6, distal 2–4 overlapping; lateral spikes pistillate, longest ones with (14–)19–45(–65) perigynia, 9–32(–41) × 4.1–6.5(–7.3) mm, ratio of spike length (in mm) to flower number = (0.56–)0.67–1.1(–1.3); terminal spikes 7–35 × (1.3–)1.5–3(–3.6) mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales (1.6–)2–3.2(–3.7) × 1.5–2.2(–2.5) mm, margins whitish, entire, apex awnless or with awn to 1(–1.5) mm. <b>Staminate</b> scales 4.3–5.2 × 1–1.8 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 1.8–3.6 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spirally imbricate, 43–54-veined, unwrinkled, oblong-ovoid, obtusely triangular in cross section, 3.2–4(–4.1) × 1.5–2.5 mm, (1.5–)1.8–2.3(–2.5) times as long as wide, dull, base very gradually tapered, apex gradually tapered; beak absent or straight, 0–0.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid, 2.4–3 × 1.3–1.6(–1.7) mm, 0.5–0.63 times as long as perigynia, loosely enveloped by perigynia; stipe straight 0.05–0.3(–0.4) mm; beak bent (0–)30–90°, 0.2–0.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–early summer.
|habitat=Mesic to wet-mesic deciduous forests or seasonally moist prairies, usually in clays or loams
|elevation=10–1900 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex glaucodea</i> is frequent. In the southern portions of its range, it occasionally grows with and hybridizes with <i>C. flaccosperma</i> (see discussion under 298. <i>C. flaccosperma</i>).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex glaucodea
|authority=Tuckerman ex Olney
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex flaccosperma var. glaucodea
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–early summer.
|habitat=Mesic to wet-mesic deciduous forests or seasonally moist prairies, usually in clays or loams
|elevation=10–1900 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1868
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Griseae
|species=Carex glaucodea
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