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|accepted_name=Carex digitalis
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 298. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Carex digital
|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. Careyanae;Carex digitalis
|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. Careyanae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex digitalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 443, 446, 447
|treatment_page=page 445
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> erect or ascending, 7–52 cm × 0.5–1 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths white or light brown; nonbasal sheaths green, 8–37 mm; blades green, 8–44 cm × 0.8–5 mm, shorter than or overtopping culm, 0.5–1.3(–1.8) times as tall as tallest flowering culm; blades of vegetative shoots 1–3.5 times wider than bract blades. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes (2–)4 per culm, scattered; peduncles of pistillate spikes 0.5–10.2 cm; of staminate spike 0.4–8.7 cm. <b>Bracts</b> 2.2–11.4 cm × 1–3 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> spikes: proximal usually basal, erect, ascending, or drooping, short to long pedunclulate, 6–18 × 4–5 mm. <b>Staminate</b> spike 1, linear to linear-clavate, 11–24 × (1–)1.2–2.7 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales keeled, 1.8–2 × 1–1.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, apex acute, proximal scales of lateral spikes subtending perigyinia. <b>Staminate</b> scales oblong, 2–3.6(–5.5) × 1–1.5 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, frequently brown tinged, apex acute. <b>Anthers</b> 2–3.3 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 3–9 per spike, finely veined, obovoid, 2–4.2 × 1.2–1.8 mm; beak tapering. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid, 1.8–2.8 × 1–1.6 mm, sides plane or slightly concave at maturity, tightly fitting perigynia. <b>Style</b> slender, ascending through entire orifice.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wis.;temperate e North America.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Terminal spike usually surpassing bract blade of distal lateral spike; longest peduncle of staminate spike (6.3–)8.1–15.9 cm; widest leaves 2–2.9(–3.5) mm wide; perigynia 7–10-veined.
|[[Carex digitalis var. macropoda|Carex digitalis var. macropoda]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Terminal spike usually surpassed by bract blade of distal lateral spike; longest peduncle of staminate spike 0.9–7.2(–11.4) cm; widest leaves 2.7–4.5(–5.3) mm wide; perigynia (8–)11–15-veined.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Peryginia 2.5–3.3 mm, apex barely excurved.
|[[Carex digitalis var. digitalis|Carex digitalis var. digitalis]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Perigynia 3.2–4.2 mm, apex noticeably excurved.
|[[Carex digitalis var. floridana|Carex digitalis var. floridana]]
|}
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name=Carex digitalis
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wis.;temperate e North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_816.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Careyanae
|species=Carex digitalis
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