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|accepted_name=Carex bicknellii
|accepted_authority=Britton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in N. L. Britton and A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S.
|place=1: 360. 1896
|year=1896
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex straminea var. crawei
|authority=Boott
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Ill. Carex,
|publication_place=121, plate 388. 1862,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex bicknellii
|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 bicknellii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 284, 338, 339, 375
|treatment_page=page 374
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose with fewer than 25 culms per clump; rhizomes appearing elongate only in old clumps. <b>Culms</b> (35–)40–110 cm; vegetative culms few, inconspicuous, with 6–8 leaves, not strikingly 3-ranked. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths adaxially white-hyaline, summits concave or truncate, prolonged beyond collar to 2.5 mm, papillose at least near apex; distal ligules 1–5 mm; blades 3–4 per fertile culm, 2.5–25 cm × 2–5 mm, usually adaxially papillose. <b>Inflorescences</b> open, pale brown, 0.24–0.62 cm × 8–15 mm; proximal internode 5–17 mm; 2d internode 3–10 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, with bristle tips shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 3–6(–8), distant, distinct, ovoid to clavate, 7–21 × 5.5–12 mm, base rounded to long tapered, apex rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown with green midstripe, lance-ovate to ovate, 3.1–5.4 mm, 1.9–3.2 times as long as wide, (1–)1.4–2.3 mm shorter than perigynia, narrower than perignyia, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Anthers</b> (2.4–)2.8–4.2 mm. <b>Staminate</b> scales obtuse. <b>Perigynia</b> 15–80 in larger spikes, ascending or ascending-spreading, green to pale whitish green with reddish brown margin, conspicuously 8–12-veined abaxially, 4–8-veined adaxially, broadly elliptic to nearly orbiculate, (4.5–)5.1–6.7(–7.1) × (2.4–)2.8–4.2 mm, 0.5–0.7 mm thick, membranaceous with brown achene visible through hyaline adaxial face, margin flat, including wing 0.8–1.2 mm wide, often erose, scalloped, or with an irregular tooth, smooth; beak pale brown at tip, flat, ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture inconspicuous, distance from beak tip to achene 2.4–3.7 mm. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic to oblong, 1.6–2.2 × 1.1–1.6 mm, 0.5 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 76, 78.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Dry to mesic prairies, open woodlands, rock or sand barrens
|elevation=50–400 m
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex bicknellii
|authority=Britton
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex straminea var. crawei
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Dry to mesic prairies, open woodlands, rock or sand barrens
|elevation=50–400 m
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=in N. L. Britton and A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S.
|publication year=1896
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex bicknellii
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