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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex molesta
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie ex Bright
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trillia
|place=9: 4, 20. 1930
|year=1930
}}
|common_names=Carex dérangeant
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex molesta
|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 molesta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 336, 340, 344, 370
|treatment_page=page 373
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 35–110 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, usually fewer than 15 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked, leaves clustered at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially green, narrow hyaline band near collar, adaxially firm, summits U-shaped, smooth; distal ligules 1.5–3.2 mm; blades 3–6 per fertile culm, 12–38 cm × 1.5–4 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect, ± congested, green to light brown, 1.3–3(–3.5) cm × 7–16 mm; proximal internode 1.5–6 mm; 2d internode 2.5–6.5 mm; proximal bracts aristate, with bristle tips shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 2–4(–5), overlapping, globose to ellipsoid, 6–16 × 5–12 mm, base and apex rounded; terminal spike usually lacking conspicuous staminate base. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline-brown, with green or pale midstripe, ovate, 2.9–3.5 mm, much shorter and narrower than perigynia, margins pale, apex acute. <b>Perigynia</b> (25–)30–80 per spike, spreading at maturity, ascending-spreading, pale brown, conspicuously 5-veined or more abaxially, conspicuously 0–6-veined adaxially, elliptic to ± orbiculate, plano-convex, (3–)3.3–4.8(–5.7) × 1.8–3 mm, 0.5–0.6 mm thick, 1.2–1.8 times as long as wide, margin flat, including wing 0.4–0.8 mm wide, smooth; beak light brown at tip, flat, 0.7–1.6(–1.8) mm, ± ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with white or hyaline golden brown margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.6–2.6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic to narrowly oblong, 1.3–1.7 × 0.9–1.3 mm, 0.5–0.6 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 68, 70.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Fields, roadsides, bottomlands, open woods, on dry to wet, often heavy, calcareous soils
|elevation=100–700 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Carex molesta, often somewhat weedy, is introduced in California.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex molesta
|author=
|authority=Mackenzie ex Bright
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Fields, roadsides, bottomlands, open woods, on dry to wet, often heavy, calcareous soils
|elevation=100–700 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trillia
|publication year=1930
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_660.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex molesta
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