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|accepted_name=Carex concinna
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea,
|place=751. 1823
|year=1823
}}
|common_names=Northern elegant sedge;carex élégant
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Clandestinae;Carex concinna
|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. Clandestinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex concinna]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 545, 546
|treatment_page=page 548
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, short-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 5.5–20 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths reddish brown, blades mostly basal, pale green, shorter than culms, thin, 1–3.1 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of proximal spikes short; peduncles of terminal staminate spikes 1–3.1 mm; proximal bracts short-sheathing; pistillate spikes 2–3, emerging from cauline nodes, aggregated, ascending, ovoid to ellipsoid; terminal staminate spikes 5–6.8 × 1.1–1.5 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales reddish brown, ovate, apex obtuse, minutely ciliate. <b>Anthers</b> 1.3–1.4 mm; staminate scales dark reddish brown, ovate, margins white, apex obtuse to rounded, scarious. <b>Perigynia</b> ellipsoid, 2.3–3.3 × 1.1–1.4 mm, base cuneate, pubescent with coarse, wrinkled white hairs; beak straight, 0.3–0.4 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3, thin, flexuous, strongly papillose. <b>Achenes</b> ellipsoid, 1.7–2.1 × 1–1.3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 54.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (late May–late Jul).
|habitat=Moist to dry meadows, riverbanks, thickets, flood plains, and open spruce, pine, cedar, birch, aspen, and willow woodlands, usually on calcareous substrates
|elevation=0–3000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Mich.;Mont.;Oreg.;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex concinna</i> is common in northern Canada and Alaska, particularly in the western mountains in the montane zone. It is often abundant, along with <i>C. richardsonii</i>, on open gravelly or sandy banks of spring flood channels. Superficially, <i>C. concinna</i> looks quite similar to <i>C. deflexa</i> Hornemann and <i>C. rossii</i> Boott of sect. Acrocystis. It differs from them in its strongly sheathing, short-bladed bracts, perigynium indument of coarse, wrinkled hairs, and minutely ciliate pistillate scale apices.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex concinna
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (late May–late Jul).
|habitat=Moist to dry meadows, riverbanks, thickets, flood plains, and open spruce, pine, cedar, birch, aspen, and willow woodlands, usually on calcareous substrates
|elevation=0–3000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Mich.;Mont.;Oreg.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea,
|publication year=1823
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Clandestinae
|species=Carex concinna
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