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|accepted_name=Carex praticola
|accepted_authority=Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
|place=1: 84. 1900
|year=1900
}}
|common_names=Carex des prés
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex pratensis
|authority=Drejer
|rank=species
|publication_title=Naturhist. Tidsskr.
|publication_place=3: 442. 1841,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex piperi
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex platylepis
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex praticola
|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 praticola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 334, 342, 346, 355
|treatment_page=page 354
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> (16–)30–70(–95) cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath adaxially white-hyaline or summits often tinged brown or copper, U-shaped, not prolonged more than 2.8 mm; distal ligules 1–2.5(–3.5) mm; blades (2–)3–5 per fertile culm, 10–30 cm × (1.5–)2–3(–4) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually open, often nodding, whitish, green, or gold to dark brown, occasionally beaded, (1.7–)2.5–5 cm × 10–15(–17) mm; proximal internode 4–14 mm; 2d internode (2.5–)4–10 mm; proximal bracts scalelike to bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 4–10, distant, distinct, oblanceloid to broadly ovoid, 8.5–20 × 3–9 mm, base acute to attenuate, apex tapered to truncate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white, gold, coppery, or brown, with white or green to brown midstripe, lanceolate to broadly ovate, (3.4–)4.2–5.8 mm, equaling or longer than and narrower than or equaling perigynia, margin white, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, apex obtuse to acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> early deciduous ro short-persistent. <b>Perigynia</b> appressed to ascending-spreading, often hyaline, white, green, or gold, brown or coppery over achene, conspicuously (0–)4–11-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0–4(–7)-veined adaxially, ovate or, sometimes, lanceolate, plano-convex or flat, (3.7–)4.5–6 × 1.2–2 mm, 0.5–0.8 mm thick, length 2.8–3.1 times width, margin flat, including wing (0.1–)0.2–0.4(–0.5) mm wide, ciliate-serrulate, without glossy metallic sheen; beak green or gold to red-brown or chestnut-brown, white-hyaline at tip, cylindric, unwinged, ± entire for 0.4–1 mm, abaxial suture conspicuous with white-hyaline margin or inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene (1.6–)1.9–3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate or obovate, 1.4–2.1(–2.7) × (0.8–)1–1.5 mm, 0.4–0.6 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 76, 78.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet meadows, open dry woods, rocky areas
|elevation=10–3500 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;Nev.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex praticola</i> is an uncommon and a local native plant in eastern North America. The distributions in southern Ontario and Illinois are introductions.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex praticola
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex piperi;Carex platylepis
|basionyms=Carex pratensis
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet meadows, open dry woods, rocky areas
|elevation=10–3500 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;Nev.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1900
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_615.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex praticola
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