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|accepted_name=Carex normalis
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=37: 244. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|common_names=Carex normal
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex mirabilis
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
|publication_title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication_place=30: 63, plate Bb, fig. 92. 1836,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex normalis
|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 normalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 336, 337, 339, 370
|treatment_page=page 372
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose in clumps of fewer than 40 culms. <b>Culms</b> erect, 35–140 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, usually fewer than 12 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked, leaves clustered at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths usually with white intervenal areas abaxially, conspicuously green-veined adaxially nearly to collar, Y-shaped hyaline area at collar, adaxially firm, summits truncate and prolonged to 2 mm beyond collar, rounded, proximal sheath loose, smooth; distal ligules 2–5.5 mm; blades 3–7 per fertile culm, 20–65 cm × 2.2–6(–6.5) mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect to arching, compact to open, green, 1.5–5 cm × 5–16 mm; proximal internode 3.5–10(–11.5) mm; 2d internode 2–8 mm; proximal bracts scalelike with bristle tips shorter than or equaling inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 4–10, overlapping to distinct, globose to ellipsoid, 7–13 × 4–7 mm, base rounded or occasionally tapered, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales white-hyaline, with green midstripe, ovate, 2.1–3.3 mm, much shorter by 0.7–1.6 mm and narrower than perigynia, margins hyaline or pale, sometimes involute, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Perigynia</b> 15–80 on larger spikes, spreading, green distally, conspicuously 4+-veined on each face, narrowly to broadly ovate, plano-convex, 2.7–4.1 × 1.3–2.3 mm, 0.35–0.5 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.25–0.45 mm wide, smooth; beak pale green at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with conspicuous white-hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.2–2.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic, 1.3–1.6 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.35–0.5 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 68.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Open, often wet, woods, thickets, meadows, and roadsides
|elevation=0–1600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex normalis
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex mirabilis
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Open, often wet, woods, thickets, meadows, and roadsides
|elevation=0–1600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1910
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex normalis
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