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|accepted_name=Carex gravida
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=1: 5. 1889
|year=1889
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex lunelliana
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex gravida
|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. Phaestoglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex gravida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 286, 297
|treatment_page=page 296
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> (20–)30–100 cm, 2.5–8 mm wide basally, 0.7–1.6 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths usually loose, proximally green-and-white-striped, not white spotted, with conspicuous transverse veins on back, fronts hyaline, sometimes transversely rugose and red dotted, thin, white or hyaline and fragile at mouth; ligules 2–7 mm, shorter to longer than wide; widest leaf blades (3–)4–8 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 5–15 spikes, 1–5 cm × 8–15 mm, occasionally compound, then somewhat larger; proximal bracts to 3 cm; spikes with 5–15 ascending to spreading perigynia; proximal internodes shorter than to 1.5 times as long as proximal spikes. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline or brown with green, 1–3-veined center, ovate, 2.6–4.4 × 1.3–2.4 mm, body shorter to slightly longer than perigynium, apex acuminate to short-awned. <b>Anthers</b> 1.5–3 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green to pale brown, veinless or 3–7(–12)-veined abaxially, rarely veined adaxially, 3.5–5.5 × 2–3 mm, body somewhat spongy, base thickened, margins serrulate distally; beak 0.6–1.6 mm, apical teeth 0.3–1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> circular to elliptic- circular, 1.8–2.1 × 1.6–2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring.
|habitat=Prairies, ditches, swales, open forests, usually on calcareous soils
|elevation=100–1400 m
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Sask.;Ark.;Colo.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex gravida</i> is introduced in North Carolina.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex gravida
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex lunelliana
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring.
|habitat=Prairies, ditches, swales, open forests, usually on calcareous soils
|elevation=100–1400 m
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Sask.;Ark.;Colo.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1889
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_512.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex gravida
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