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|accepted_name=Carex baileyi
|accepted_authority=Britton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=22: 220. 1895
|year=1895
}}
|common_names=Carex de Bailey
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex tentaculata var. gracilis
|authority=Boott
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Ill. Carex,
|publication_place=94. 1860,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Vesicariae;Carex baileyi
|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. Vesicariae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex baileyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 502, 508
|treatment_page=page 509
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm. <b>Culms</b> sharply trigonous in cross section, 20–65 cm, scabrous-angled distally. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths reddish purple; ligules as long as to longer than wide; blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves 2.4–4(–5) mm wide, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–16(–22) cm; proximal bract 12–40(–55) cm, greatly exceeding inflorescence; proximal 1–2(–3) spikes pistillate, proximal spreading to pendent, the distal erect, 9–14(–15) mm thick, 2.5–3.5 times as long as wide; terminal 1 spike staminate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales narrowly oblong, 2.9–9.8 × 0.3–0.9 mm, as long as or shorter than perigynia, margins often ciliate, apex truncate to retuse, erose and prolonged into a scabrous awn. <b>Staminate</b> scales scabrous-awned, sometimes ciliate-margined. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to spreading, strongly 5–9-veined, veins separate nearly to beak apex, broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate, 4.8–6.5(–7.6) × 1.8–2.7 mm, apex abruptly contracted; beak 2.2–4 mm, 0.7–1.3 length of body, bidentulate, smooth, teeth straight, 0.1–0.6 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> brown, trigonous, papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Sandy, peaty, or gravelly pond, lake, and stream shores, sedge meadows, open swamps, seeps, ditches, usually in acidic soils
|elevation=200–1200 m
|distribution=Que.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex baileyi</i>, a taxon confined to the Appalachian Mountain region, is very similar in appearance to <i>C. lurida</i>; however, it is more delicate with narrower leaves and spikes and has proportionally longer and more abruptly beaked perigynia.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex baileyi
|authority=Britton
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex tentaculata var. gracilis
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Sandy, peaty, or gravelly pond, lake, and stream shores, sedge meadows, open swamps, seeps, ditches, usually in acidic soils
|elevation=200–1200 m
|distribution=Que.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1895
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_947.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Vesicariae
|species=Carex baileyi
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