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|accepted_name=Carex argyrantha
|accepted_authority=Tuckerman ex Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|place=2, 29: 346. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|common_names=Silvery-flowered sedge;carex argenté
|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 argyrantha
|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 argyrantha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 334, 357
|treatment_page=page 358
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 30–100 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths papillose, summits U-shaped; distal ligules 3.5–5 mm; blades 4–5 per fertile culm, green, without auricles, 17–37 cm × 2–5 mm, pliable. <b>Inflorescences</b> arching or nodding from proximal spike, open at least proximally, silvery greenish yellow, 2.5–6.5 cm × 7–17 mm; proximal internode 7–18 mm; 2d internode 3–10 mm; often aristate or long-aristate; proximal bracts scalelike. <b>Spikes</b> (3–)7–15, widely spaced except the distal densely aggregated, proximal 1 often stalked, nearly globose or ovoid, 6–17 × 4.5–7 mm, base clavate or attenuate, apex rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales silvery pale green with pale or green midstripe, lance-subulate, (3.2–)3.5–4.1(–4.6) mm, shorter and narrower than or equaling perigynia, margin white-hyaline, to 0.6 mm wide, apex acute. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, uniformly pale green to straw colored, conspicuously, evenly (4–)5–8(–10)-veined on each face, ovate to obovate, plano-convex, 3–4.5 × 1.9–2.3 mm, 0.6 mm thick, usually widest at 2/5–1/2 total length, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.6 mm wide, finely granular-papillose; beak whitish at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate to within 0.3 mm of tip, abaxial suture inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 1.2–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> oblong-ovate, 1.5–1.75 × 1–1.2 mm, 1.4–1.6 times as long as wide, 0.5 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 80.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting mid summer.
|habitat=Dry clearings, open woods, on acidic, rocky, or sandy substrates, rock outcrops
|elevation=0–700+ m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
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name=Carex argyrantha
|authority=Tuckerman ex Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting mid summer.
|habitat=Dry clearings, open woods, on acidic, rocky, or sandy substrates, rock outcrops
|elevation=0–700+ m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication year=1860
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex argyrantha
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