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|accepted_name=Carex biltmoreana
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=37: 234. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Paniceae;Carex biltmoreana
|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. Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex biltmoreana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 427, 429
|treatment_page=page 430
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose, short-rhizomatous, shoots less than 2.5 cm apart. <b>Culms</b> 30–75 cm, smooth to finely scabrous distally. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal sheaths with or without blades, reddish purple tinged, 3–6.5 mm diam.; ligules 2.5–12 mm, more than 2 times longer than wide; blades of vegetative culms 12–50 cm, evergreen, those of fertile culms green, flat to revolute, 5–20 cm × 3.5–6 mm, herbaceous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 16–32 cm, 1–1.6 times longer than proximal bract; proximal bract 8–19 cm, sheath 1.5–5 cm, blade 7–14 cm; pistillate spikes linear or linear-oblong, 1.5–3.5 cm × 3–8 mm; lateral spikes erect or ascending on stiff peduncles. <b>Pistillate</b> scales purple-brown, apex obtuse or short-awned, frequently papillose. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, loosely to densely arranged, greenish, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2.25 mm, faintly papillose; beak 0–0.7 mm, often bent. <b>Achenes</b> yellowish brown, 1.8–2.5 × 1.4–1.6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Rocky woods, moist rock faces, granite balds, cliff ledges
|elevation=850–1600 m
|distribution=Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Carex biltmoreana</i> is a rare, southern Appalachian Mountain endemic (L. L. Gaddy 1983).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=gaddy1983a
|text=Gaddy, L. L. 1983. Notes on the Biltmore sedge, Carex biltmoreana Mackenzie (Cyperaceae). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 110: 530–532.
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name=Carex biltmoreana
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Rocky woods, moist rock faces, granite balds, cliff ledges
|elevation=850–1600 m
|distribution=Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=gaddy1983a
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1910
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Paniceae
|species=Carex biltmoreana
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