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|accepted_name=Carex gracilescens
|accepted_authority=Steudel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|place=2: 226. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|common_names=Carex grêle
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex laxiflora var. gracillima
|authority=Boott
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Laxiflorae;Carex gracilescens
|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. Laxiflorae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex gracilescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 432, 437
|treatment_page=page 438
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>densely tufted, ascending, lax or, occasionally, decumbent, 13–78 cm × 0.8–1 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths purple or purple tinged; sheaths 2–42 mm; blades ascending or lax, erect, green or yellow-green, midrib developed adaxially, 2 lateral veins abaxially, 19–38 cm × 1–5 mm, blades of overwintering leaves smooth. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles proximal pistillate spikes to 11 cm, distal spike sessile; staminate spike 0.5–10.6 cm. <b>Bracts</b> 0.5–11.2 cm × 0.5–4 mm, angles of bract sheath denticulate; bract blade of distal lateral spikes linear, narrower than spikes, not concealing them; widest bract blade of distalmost lateral spike 0.5–3.4 mm wide. <b>Spikes</b> (3–)4(–5) per culm; lateral spikes 5–27 × 3–4 mm; internode between proximal scales in proximal spike 1.1–3.2(–4.8) mm; terminal spike linear, 11–21 × 1–2.2 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 2.8–3 × 1–1.2 mm, apex acute to aristate, awn to 1 mm. <b>Staminate</b> scales 3.5–4 × 1.2–1.5 mm, margins hyaline, purple-brown or brownish purple tinged, apex acute. <b>Anthers</b> 2.6–3 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 4–12 per spike, closely overlapping, aggregated, ascending, conspicuously (22–)25–32-veined, elliptic-obovate, 2.8–3 × 1.5–1.8 mm, 1.8–2.7 times long as wide; beak abruptly bent, 0.2–0.8 mm. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid, 2.6–2.8 × 1.3–1.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 33, 38, 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Moist to dry deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests or woodland edges in partial shade, frequently on limestone or chalk, on clay or marl soils, stream bottoms or on steep slopes
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex gracilescens
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex laxiflora var. gracillima
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Moist to dry deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests or woodland edges in partial shade, frequently on limestone or chalk, on clay or marl soils, stream bottoms or on steep slopes
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|publication year=1855
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_804.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Laxiflorae
|species=Carex gracilescens
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