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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex interior
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=20: 426. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|common_names=Carex continental
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex scirpoides
|authority=Schkuhr ex Willdenow
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=4(1): 237. 1805,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Stellulatae;Carex interior
|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. Stellulatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex interior]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 326, 327
|treatment_page=page 328
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>10–95 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 3–5 per culm; sheaths tight, inner band hyaline, 1.8–13 cm, apex concave, glabrous; ligule of distalmost leaf obtuse to rounded, 0.6–2.2 mm; blades plicate, 6–31 cm × 0.6–2.4(–2.7) mm, widest leaf 1–2.4(–2.7) mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.8–3.7 cm; spikes 2–5(–7); lateral spikes pistillate often with few staminate flowers proximally, 3–9.5 mm, sessile, staminate portion 3-flowered, to 2.2 mm, pistillate portion 3–18-flowered, 2.3–8 mm; basal 2 spikes 2.1–11 mm apart; terminal spike 5.2–20 mm, gynecandrous, staminate portion 3–10-flowered, 2.2–14.5 × 0.7–1.4 mm, pistillate portion 4–16-flowered, 3–7 × 4–5.8 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales ovate, 1.2–2.1(–2.4) × 1–1.6 mm, apex obtuse. <b>Staminate</b> scales ovate, 1.4–2.9 × 1–1.3 mm, base clavate, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Anthers</b> 0.6–1.4 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading to reflexed, castaneous to dark brown, 4–12-veined abaxially, sometimes faintly, 0(–6)-veined adaxially over achene, ovate, often convexly tapered from widest point to beak, forming a “shoulder,” 1.95–3(–3.3) × 1.1–1.8 mm, 1.4–2(–2.2) times as long as wide; beak 0.4–0.95 mm, 0.18–0.44 length of body, setulose-serrulate, teeth 0.15–0.4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate, 1.2–1.8 × 0.95–1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Wet meadows, wet prairies, fens, coniferous and deciduous swamps, river and lakeshores, seeps, usually in ± calcareous, open sites
|elevation=0–2700 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|discussion=<p>When <i>Carex interior</i> occurs with <i>C. sterilis</i>, <i>C. echinata</i>, and (rarely) <i>C. atlantica</i>, usually sterile intermediates, presumably hybrids, may occasionally be found.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex interior
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex scirpoides
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Wet meadows, wet prairies, fens, coniferous and deciduous swamps, river and lakeshores, seeps, usually in ± calcareous, open sites
|elevation=0–2700 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1893
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_582.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Stellulatae
|species=Carex interior
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