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|accepted_name=Carex opaca
|accepted_authority=(F. J. Hermann) P. E. Rothrock & Reznicek
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=11: 223. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex bicknellii var. opaca
|authority=F. J. Hermann
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Sida
|publication_place=5: 49. 1972
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex opaca
|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 opaca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 338
|treatment_page=page 375
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, to 200 culms together; rhizomes appearing elongate only in old clumps. <b>Culms</b> 50–115 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, usually fewer than 12 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glabrous, hyaline sometimes brown tinged band near collar, the summits U-shaped to truncate, ± equaling the base of the blade; distal ligules 1.5–5.4 mm; blades 3–6 per fertile culm, 3.5–40 cm × 1.5–4.6 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> open, erect to slightly arching, pale or golden brown, 2.4–5.5(–6.4) cm × 6.5–21 mm; proximal internode 4–13(–18) mm; 2d internode 3–11 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, with bristle tips to 1.5 cm. <b>Spikes</b> 4–8(–10), distinct, ovoid, 10–22 × 4–11 mm, base rounded to tapered, apex rounded to acute. <b>Pistillate</b> scales pale brown with narrow yellow-green to brown midstripe, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, (3.6–)3.9–5 mm, 2.4–3.1(–3.4) times as long as wide, barely or not reaching base of perigynium beaks, margin hyaline, apex firm and herbaceous, flat or inrolled, obtuse to acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales obtuse to acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> (1.8–)2.2–3.6 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 15–80 in larger spikes, ± appressed, yellowish green to brown with paler margins, conspicuously 3–7-veined adaxially, 8–12-veined abaxially, 2–5 veins in wings, broadly ovate, broadly elliptic, or orbiculate, often strongly concave, (5.6–)6–7.1 × 3.3–4.6(–4.8) mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick, margin flat, including wing 0.6–1.3 mm wide, smooth; beak pale or golden brown at tip, strongly flattened, (1.2–)1.5–2.1(–2.3) mm, serrulate-margined to apex, abaxial suture yellow-green to copper-brown, distance from tip of beak to achene 2.8–4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> broadly ovate to oblong, 1.8–2.4 × 1.3–1.9 mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick, apiculum to 0.5–1.1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 66, 68.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Low areas in prairies, roadside ditches, poorly drained sites
|elevation=50–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ill.;Kans.;Miss.;Mo.;Okla.
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|references=
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name=Carex opaca
|authority=(F. J. Hermann) P. E. Rothrock & Reznicek
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex bicknellii var. opaca
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Low areas in prairies, roadside ditches, poorly drained sites
|elevation=50–400 m
|distribution=Ark.;Ill.;Kans.;Miss.;Mo.;Okla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2001
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex opaca
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