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|accepted_name=Carex duriuscula
|accepted_authority=C. A. Meyer
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans
|place=1: 214. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex eleocharis
|authority=L. H. Bailey
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex stenophylla subsp. eleocharis
|authority=(L. H. Bailey) Hultén
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex stenophylla var. eleocharis
|authority=(L. H. Bailey) Breitung
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Divisae;Carex duriuscula
|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. Divisae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex duriuscula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 303, 305
|treatment_page=page 304
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>0.6–1.8 mm thick, shoots often arising 2–several per cluster, many nodes without shoots. <b>Culms</b> bluntly trigonous, (6–)10–35 cm, smooth-angled distally. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths grayish brown to dark brown, shredding into fibers; sheaths with hyaline inner band, apex not prolonged beyond base of blade; ligules 0–0.8 mm, glabrous; blades 0.6–1.8 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.7–2 cm, 1/2+ as wide as long (if pistillate); spikes 3–8, androgynous, ovoid. <b>Pistillate</b> scales dark reddish brown, with hyaline margins, broadly ovate, 2.4–4.1 mm, apex acute to acuminate, shiny. <b>Anthers</b> 1.4–3 mm, apiculus smooth to warty, very short and broad (30X). <b>Perigynia</b> dark reddish brown, essentially veinless, ± stipitate, broadly ovate to nearly orbicular, thickly plano-convex, 2.4–3.9 × 1.5–2.1 mm, shiny; beak 0.3–0.9 mm, hyaline, weakly bidentulate or oblique.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry prairies, sagebrush grasslands, openings in dry forests
|elevation=300–3300 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Carex duriuscula belongs to a difficult complex of temperate dry grassland species, and the North American plants are recognized here as conspecific with the Asian Carex duriuscula, following T. V. Egorova (1999). Compared to the Asian plants, the North American plants usually are taller [5–12(–20) versus (6–)10–35 cm] and the perigynia are larger [2.5–3(–3.2) versus 2.4–3.9 mm] (T. V. Egorova 1999). More work is still needed here. North American plants have often been treated as a variety or subspecies of the Eurasian C. stenophylla, which is quite different in having larger perigynia that are distinctly veined adaxially.</p><!--
--><p>The species is sporadically introduced along roads and in railway yards east of its native range.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex duriuscula
|author=
|authority=C. A. Meyer
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex eleocharis;Carex stenophylla subsp. eleocharis;Carex stenophylla var. eleocharis
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry prairies, sagebrush grasslands, openings in dry forests
|elevation=300–3300 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans
|publication year=1831
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Divisae
|species=Carex duriuscula
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