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|accepted_name=Carex adusta
|accepted_authority=Boott in W. J. Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. J. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 215. 1839
|year=1839
}}
|common_names=Carex brûlé
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex adusta
|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 adusta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 254, 333, 357
|treatment_page=page 356
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 25–80 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially hyaline, often green-veined nearly to collar, summits U- or V-shaped or rounded, sometimes prolonged to 1.5 mm beyond collar; distal ligules 1–4 mm; blades 2–5 per fertile culm, 7–25 cm × 2–3.5 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> stiffly erect, dense or open, greenish brown to gold, 2–4.5 cm × 12–20 mm; proximal internode 2–15 mm; 2d internode 2.5–5 mm; proximal bracts leaflike, much longer than inflorescence, or bristlelike. <b>Spikes</b> 5–8(–11), usually distinct, broadly ovoid, 8–11 × 5–8 mm, base and apex acute to rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown, with paler center, ovate to broadly ovate, 4–5.5 mm, equaling, ± covering perigynia, hyaline margin absent or to 0.2 mm, apex acute to mucronate. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, green, gold, or cream colored, conspicuously 7–11-veined abaxially, conspicuously 0(–2)-veined adaxially, ovate to broadly ovate, plano-convex to biconvex, 4–5 × 1.9–2.5 mm, 0.7–1.1 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.6 mm wide, often thickened; beak gold at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture usually inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 1.7–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> obovate to elliptic, 2.1–2.5 × 1.6–2 mm, 0.7–1 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 78.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Dry, acidic, sandy soils of open woods and clearings, moist shores
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;N.Y.;Wis.
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name=Carex adusta
|authority=Boott in W. J. Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Dry, acidic, sandy soils of open woods and clearings, moist shores
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;N.Y.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. J. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1839
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex adusta
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