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|accepted_name=Carex lurida
|accepted_authority=Wahlenberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl.
|place=24: 153. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Carex luisant
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Vesicariae;Carex lurida
|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. Vesicariae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex lurida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 502, 509, 513
|treatment_page=page 508
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm. <b>Culms</b> sharply trigonous in cross section, (15–)25–95(–110) cm, scabrous-angled distally. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths reddish purple; ligules as wide to slightly longer than wide; blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves (4–)4.5–11.5(–13) mm wide, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2.7–18 cm; proximal bract 9–45 cm, exceeding inflorescence; proximal 1–3(–4) spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal often spreading, (12–)15–22 mm thick, if spikes less than 15 mm thick, then usually less than 2.5 times as long as wide; terminal 1 spike staminate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales narrowly oblong, 3.4–11.2 × 0.5–1.1 mm, as long as or shorter than perigynia, margins often ciliate, apex truncate to retuse, erose, prolonged to scabrous awn. <b>Staminate</b> scales with distinct, scabrous awn, sometimes ciliate-margined. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading, strongly 7–12-veined, veins separate nearly to beak apex, broadly ovate, (6–)6.5–10.8 × (1.8–)2–3.5(–4.2), apex contracted; beak 2.5–5.9 mm, 0.7–0.9 length of body, bidentate, smooth, teeth straight, to 0.2–0.8 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> yellow to brown, trigonous, papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting May–Aug.
|habitat=Wet meadows, marshes, seeps, shores of ponds, lakes, and streams, open swamp forests, ditches, mostly in acidic, often sandy soils
|elevation=0–1200 m
|distribution=Nfld. & Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico;West Indies;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex lurida</i> is an abundant, variable, and often weedy species. A few specimens appear to be hybrids of <i>C. lurida</i> with <i>C. lupulina</i>.</p>
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name=Carex lurida
|authority=Wahlenberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting May–Aug.
|habitat=Wet meadows, marshes, seeps, shores of ponds, lakes, and streams, open swamp forests, ditches, mostly in acidic, often sandy soils
|elevation=0–1200 m
|distribution=Nfld. & Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico;West Indies;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_946.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Vesicariae
|species=Carex lurida
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