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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex jamesii
|accepted_authority=Schweinitz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|place=1: 67. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=James’s sedge;grass sedge
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex steudelii
|authority=Kunth
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phyllostachyae;Carex jamesii
|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. Phyllostachyae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex jamesii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 388, 452, 559, 560
|treatment_page=page 561
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>4–37 cm; cataphylls with concave cells. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths golden brown to dark brown; blades green, eceeding culms, 0.8–4.8 mm wide, herbaceous, margins green, scabrous. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 1–5, basal, on spreading to nodding peduncles. <b>Terminal</b> spikes with staminate portion 3–13flowered, (4.2–)5.814.5 × 0.40.8 mm; pistillate portion 14-flowered. <b>Pistillate</b> scales green, margins connate, hyaline, white, occasionally tinged reddish brown; proximal scales with margins 1.4–3 mm, apex long-acuminate; distal scales with margins 0.4–0.8 mm wide, apex acuminate, awnless. <b>Staminate</b> scales ovate, 1.1–1.8(–2.1) × 1.2–1.5 mm, 0.12–0.25(–0.75) length of staminate portion of terminal spike, margins hyaline, white, often with reddish brown subapical band, apex truncate or broadly obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 0.6–1.6 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> green to bronze, globose to ellipsoid, 4.4–7.2 × 1.9–2.4 mm, tightly enveloping achenes, apex abruptly tapering; beak 1.6–3.8 mm, scabrous. <b>Stigmas</b> filiform, flexuous, strongly papillose. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown, globose to ellipsoid, 2–2.6 × 1.7–2.4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 66, 70.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (early May–mid Jul).
|habitat=Mesic, rich ravines, slopes, and flood plains in hardwood forests, on lime-rich substrates
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex jamesii
|authority=Schweinitz
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex steudelii
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (early May–mid Jul).
|habitat=Mesic, rich ravines, slopes, and flood plains in hardwood forests, on lime-rich substrates
|elevation=100–400 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|publication year=1824
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_1067.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
|species=Carex jamesii
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