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|accepted_name=Carex cherokeensis
|accepted_authority=Schweinitz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|place=1: 71. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=Cherokee sedge;wolftail sedge
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae;Carex cherokeensis
|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. Hymenochlaenae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex cherokeensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 461, 462, 473
|treatment_page=page 474
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with short-creeping rhizomes, forming dense colonies. <b>Culms</b> brown to chestnut at base, surrounded by remains of old leaf bases, but not conspicuously fibrillose; flowering culms 30–80 mm, usually longer than leaves at maturity, 1–2 mm thick, glabrous but finely scabrous within inflorescence. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glabrous, basal ones dark chestnut, grading to light brown and green on back, all bearing blades, sometimes very reduced in size on basal ones; sheath fronts brown-hyaline or membranous, darker brown and often red dotted toward apex; blades rigid, flat or channeled near base, 2.5–7 mm wide, glabrous but margins, edges of adaxial surface, and midrib of abaxial surface finely scabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of lateral spikes slender, to 100 mm (proximal spikes) or to 30 mm (distal spikes), minutely scabrous; of terminal spike 3–20 mm, glabrous; proximal bracts much shorter than inflorescences; sheaths 10–75 mm; blades 1.5–3.5 mm wide. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 4–12, 1–3 per node; proximal spikes well separated, arching, pistillate with 20–50 perigynia attached 1 mm apart, cylindric, 15–45 × 6–9 mm; distal spikes androgynous or staminate, usually crowded near apex. <b>Terminal</b> spike staminate, sometimes compound at base, 20–60 × 2.5–4 mm; the set of predominantly staminate spikes usually conspicuously raised above predominantly pistillate ones. <b>Pistillate</b> scales pale hyaline tinged with light brown, with midrib green to golden green, ovate to elliptic, nearly as long as mature perigynia, gradually narrowing to acuminate or short-cuspidate apex, glabrous except scabrous midrib. <b>Perigynia</b> green to straw colored, sparsely red dotted, 2-ribbed and finely 7–10-veined, slightly inflated around achene, ovoid, 5–6.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, membranous, base rounded, apex gradually tapering to beak, glabrous; beak bidentate, 2.5 mm including teeth, teeth hyaline, narrow, to 1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> substipitate, 2–2.5 × 1.2–1.7 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Floodplain forests, mesic deciduous forests, wet clearings and swamp forests, stream banks, acid seeps, margins of sinkholes, dolomite glades
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex cherokeensis
|author=
|authority=Schweinitz
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Floodplain forests, mesic deciduous forests, wet clearings and swamp forests, stream banks, acid seeps, margins of sinkholes, dolomite glades
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York
|publication year=1824
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae
|species=Carex cherokeensis
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