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|accepted_name=Carex careyana
|accepted_authority=Torrey ex Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=30: 60, plate Bb, fig. 88. 1836
|year=1836
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Careyanae;Carex careyana
|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. Careyanae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex careyana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 443, 448
|treatment_page=page 447
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> lateral, lax, drooping, or decumbent, 34–62 cm × 1–1.2 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths purple, sheaths 15–29 mm; blades erect or ascending, green, midrib and 2 lateral veins strongly developed, 14–48 cm × 4–18 mm, older ones shriveling or dead at tips. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes (2–)3–(–4) per culm, scattered; peduncle of pistillate spike usually erect or spreading, rarely drooping, exserted 0–11.5 cm; bracts sheaths green, occasionally with purple traces, from middle and proximal portions of culms with blades 2.1–9.2 cm × 1–4 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> spikes proximal sometimes basal, 7–18 × 4–7 mm. <b>Staminate</b> spike 1, pedunculate, oblanceolate to linear, 8–20 × 2–3.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales keeled, 3.5–4.2 × 1.8–2.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, occasionally purple tinged outward, apex cuspidate to acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales 4–6 × 1.8–2.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, purple outward, apex obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 3.4–3.7 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 4–9 per spike, overlapping, finely veined, ovoid, 5–6.6 × 2.5–3 mm; beak tapering. <b>Achenes</b> broadly ovoid, 4.5–6 × 2.4–2.8 mm, slightly to distinctly concave at maturity, tightly fitting in perigynia. <b>Style</b> ascending through entire orifice. <b>2n</b> = 68.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Rich, moist deciduous or deciduous-evergreen forests, on slopes, often around limestone escarpments and adjacent rocky woods, washes, sinks, or cave entrances
|elevation=100–600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
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name=Carex careyana
|authority=Torrey ex Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Rich, moist deciduous or deciduous-evergreen forests, on slopes, often around limestone escarpments and adjacent rocky woods, washes, sinks, or cave entrances
|elevation=100–600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1836
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Careyanae
|species=Carex careyana
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