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|accepted_name=Carex ouachitana
|accepted_authority=Kral Manhart & Bryson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|place=74: 440, fig. 1. 1987
|year=1987
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Griseae;Carex ouachitana
|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 ouachitana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 448, 450
|treatment_page=page 451
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not cespitose; rhizome internodes 2–3.4 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> strongly purple-red or yellow-brown tinged with purple-red to 4.8–10.4 cm high at base, 20–60(–68) cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glabrous; blades green, widest blades 2.4–5.1(–6.7) mm wide, smooth abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.21–0.57(–0.95) of culm height; peduncles of lateral spikes scaberulous; peduncles of terminal spikes (2.5–)18–121 mm, usually much exceeding lateral spikes; proximal bract with sheaths tight, abaxially glabrous, sheath front apex concave, elongated 0.2–2.5 mm; ligules 0.2–4.3 mm; distal bract shorter than terminal spike. <b>Spikes</b> 1–3, widely separate; lateral spikes pistillate or androgynous, with 3–13(–22) perigynia, (19–)13–39 × 3.9–8.3 mm, ratio of spike length (in mm) to flower number = 1.7–3.4; terminal spikes (16–)20–43 × (2.8–)3.3–4.5(–5.4) mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 3.3–11.1(–17.9) × 2–2.8 mm, margins entire, whitish, apex with awn 0.2–8.3(–13.7) mm. <b>Staminate</b> scales 4.2–5.7 × 1.2–1.6 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 2.4–4.4 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spirally imbricate, 42–65-veined, unwrinkled, obovoid or narrowly obovoid, obtusely triangular in cross section, 3.4–5.1 × 1.5–2 mm, 1.8–2.5(–3.2) times as long as wide, dull, base gradually tapered, apex gradually or abruptly tapered to subacute; beak absent or excurved, 0–0.4(–1.2) mm. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid, 2.6–3.4 × 1.4–1.8 mm, tightly enveloped by perigynia; stipe 0.1–0.3(–0.6) mm, bent 30–60°; beak bent 35–80°, 0.25–0.45 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Mesic to dry-mesic, rocky, deciduous or deciduous-pine forests, usually in loams on slopes or ridgetops
|elevation=200–800 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ky.;Okla.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p>Though it has a restricted distribution and is local, <i>Carex ouachitana</i> is often abundant where it occurs.</p>
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name=Carex ouachitana
|authority=Kral Manhart & Bryson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Mesic to dry-mesic, rocky, deciduous or deciduous-pine forests, usually in loams on slopes or ridgetops
|elevation=200–800 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ky.;Okla.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1987
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Griseae
|species=Carex ouachitana
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