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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex michauxiana
|accepted_authority=Boeckeler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=41: 336. 1877
|year=1877
}}
|common_names=Carex de Michaux
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex rostrata
|authority=Michaux
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Rostrales;Carex michauxiana
|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. Rostrales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex michauxiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 516
|treatment_page=page 515
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>obtusely trigonous in cross section, 15–70 cm, smooth. <b>Leaves</b>: ligules 1.2–3 mm, wider than long; blades yellowish green, M-shaped to flat, widest leaves 1.6–3.5(–4.2) mm wide, smooth abaxially, minutely papillose adaxially, especially distally. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1.8–18 cm; bract sheaths with apex concave; proximal (1–)2–3(–4) spikes pistillate, distal spikes erect, aggregated or the proximal sometimes remote, ovoid. <b>Pistillate</b> scales narrowly ovate, mostly 1/3–2/3 length of perigynia, apex acute. <b>Anthers</b> 1.1–2.7 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading or the proximal somewhat reflexed, yellowish green, 20–26-veined, essentially uninflated, lanceolate, 8.7–12.1 × 1.3–2.1 mm, 4–7 times as long as wide, apex tapered, bidentulate; beak absent. <b>Achenes</b> 2.2–3 × 1.2–1.7 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Bogs, fens, lakeshores, stream banks, open seeps, in sandy or peaty, often acidic soils
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Carex michauxiana is closely related to the east Asian C. dolichocarpa C. A. Meyer ex V. I. Kreczetowicz.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex michauxiana
|author=
|authority=Boeckeler
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex rostrata
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Bogs, fens, lakeshores, stream banks, open seeps, in sandy or peaty, often acidic soils
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1877
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_962.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Rostrales
|species=Carex michauxiana
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