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|accepted_name=Carex inops
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=22: 126. 1886
|year=1886
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Acrocystis;Carex inops
|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. Acrocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex inops]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 534, 541
|treatment_page=page 543
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose; rhizomes horizontally spreading, brown to reddish brown, 20–70 mm, slender. <b>Culms</b> 13–50 cm, scabrous distally; bases (remnants of old leaves) weakly to strongly fibrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades green, 0.7–4.5 mm wide, herbaceous, smooth to scabrous abaxially, smooth to scabrous adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of staminate spikes (0.8–)2.5–20 mm; proximal cauline bracts leaflike, green or reddish brown, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3(–4) (basal spikes 0, rarely 1); cauline spikes overlapping or somewhat separated, with (2–)5–15 perigynia; staminate spikes 8–30 × 1.3–4.1 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales pale brown to dark reddish brown or purplish brown, narrow white margins, elliptic to ovate, 2.6–5.4 × 1.2–2.6 mm, equaling perigynia, apex acute to acuminate or short-awned (rarely obtuse); staminate scales with white margins 0.4–0.8 mm wide, lanceolate to obovate, 3.6–6.7 × 1.2–1.7 mm apex obtuse to long-acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> (1.5–)2–3.8 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> yellowish green to pale brown or olive, veinless, obovoid, 2.8–4.6 × 1.5–2.2 mm, as long as wide; beak straight, pale green, occasionally with reddish tinge, 0.4–1.3 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.7 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown, obovoid to globose, obtusely trigonous in cross section, (1.4–)1.6–2.5 × 1.5–2.2 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Sask.;Calif.;Colo.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;N.Dak.;N.Mex.;Nebr.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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|1
|Proximal cauline pistillate spikes ovoid to short-cylindric, short-pedunculate; peduncles of staminate spikes (3–)4–20 mm; western British Columbia to northern California.
|[[Carex inops subsp. inops|Carex inops subsp. inops]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Proximal cauline pistillate spikes globose to ovoid, sessile; peduncles of staminate spikes 1.2–4.5 mm; east of the Rocky Mountains.
|[[Carex inops subsp. heliophila|Carex inops subsp. heliophila]]
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name=Carex inops
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Sask.;Calif.;Colo.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;N.Dak.;N.Mex.;Nebr.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1886
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Acrocystis
|species=Carex inops
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