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|accepted_name=Carex ovalis
|accepted_authority=Goodenough
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc.
|place=2: 148. 1794
|year=1794
}}
|common_names=Carex des lièvres
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex tracyi
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex ovalis
|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. Ovales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex ovalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 334, 341, 342, 354
|treatment_page=page 353
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> (24–)35–85 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath adaxially white-hyaline, summits U-shaped to rounded; distal ligules 2–3 mm; blades (1–)2–4(–5) per fertile culm, flat ± to tip, 7–22 cm × (1.5–)2–3.5(–4) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> stiffly erect, usually open, brown, 1.5–4 cm × 10–15 mm; proximal internode (2.5–)4–10 mm; 2d internode (2.5–)3–6 mm; proximal bracts scalelike or bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 5–9, usually loosely aggregated, ovoid to broadly ovoid, 9–14 × 6–8 mm, base attenuate, apex rounded to tapered. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish gold to brown or greenish, often white-hyaline at tip or base, with pale or green midstripe, narrowly to broadly ovate, 3.4–5 mm, length and width less or greater than perigynia, margin not white-hyaline, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to ascending-spreading, gold to light brown, conspicuously 3–9-veined abaxially, conspicuously 2–5-veined adaxially, lanceolate to ovate, usually flat except over achene, 3.4–4.7(–5.2) × 1.3–2.1 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.6 mm wide; beak red-brown or gold at tip, usually cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.3–0.5 mm, sometimes flat, ciliate-serrulate to tip, abaxial suture often with conspicuous white margin, distance from beak tip to achene (1.2–)1.5–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic to broadly ovate, 1.1–1.8 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 62, 64, 66, 68.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Meadows, seasonally wet soils
|elevation=0–1100 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Calif.;Maine;Nev.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Oreg.;Pa.;Tenn.;Wash.;Wis.;Eurasia;New Zealand.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex</i> leporina Linnaeus has been incorrectly applied to <i>C. ovalis</i> in North America.</p><!--
--><p><i>Carex ovalis</i> is naturalized in the flora in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Connecticut, Maine (one locality), New Hampshire, New York, and Wisconsin; it is naturalized also in New Zealand.</p><!--
--><p>West coast plants are apparently native and sometimes have been recognized as a distinct species, <i>Carex</i> tracyi.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex ovalis
|authority=Goodenough
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex tracyi
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Meadows, seasonally wet soils
|elevation=0–1100 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;P.E.I.;Calif.;Maine;Nev.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Oreg.;Pa.;Tenn.;Wash.;Wis.;Eurasia;New Zealand.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc.
|publication year=1794
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_613.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex ovalis
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