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|accepted_name=Carex laevivaginata
|accepted_authority=(Kükenthal) Mackenzie in N. L. Britton and A. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in N. L. Britton and A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S. ed.
|place=2, 1: 371. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex stipata var. laevivaginata
|authority=Kükenthal
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Vulpinae;Carex laevivaginata
|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. Vulpinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex laevivaginata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 274
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with basal sheaths of previous year not persistent. <b>Culms</b> to 80 cm × 2 mm, scabrous throughout. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths all with blades, fronts smooth, lacking spots, veinless, apex yellow, thickened, truncate, cartilaginous, entire; ligules acute, 5 mm, free limb to 0.5 mm; blades yellow-green, epistomic, to 60 cm × 6 mm, papillose adaxially (25X). <b>Inflorescences</b> densely spicate, cylindric, elongate, with 6–15 distinguishable branches, 3–6 × 1.5 cm; proximal internode to 10 mm; proximal bracts setaceous, apparent. <b>Scales</b> hyaline. <b>Perigynia</b> pale brown, red-brown distally, with red-brown veins, 10–12-veined abaxially, 7-veined adaxially, to 6 × 2.6 mm, base slightly distended proximally, cordate; stipe to 0.2 mm; beak to 2.5 mm, margins serrulate. <b>Achenes</b> ovate, 2 × 1.3 mm; stalk to 0.3 mm; persistent style base cylindric, 0.3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 46.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting May–Jun.
|habitat=Seasonally saturated or inundated soils in wet meadows, marshes, edges of tidal marshes, swamps, or alluvial bottomlands, particularly on calcareous substrates
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Carex laevivaginata is readily distinguished from all other species in the section by the thickened, yellow sheath apex and the papillose, epistomic leaves.</p>
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name=Carex laevivaginata
|author=
|authority=(Kükenthal) Mackenzie in N. L. Britton and A. Brown
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex stipata var. laevivaginata
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting May–Jun.
|habitat=Seasonally saturated or inundated soils in wet meadows, marshes, edges of tidal marshes, swamps, or alluvial bottomlands, particularly on calcareous substrates
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=in N. L. Britton and A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S. ed.
|publication year=1913
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Vulpinae
|species=Carex laevivaginata
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