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|accepted_name=Carex louisianica
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=20: 428. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W1
|label=
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex halei
|authority=J. Carey ex Chapman
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication_place=543. 1860,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Lupulinae;Carex louisianica
|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. Lupulinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex louisianica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 513
|treatment_page=page 512
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely colonial, long-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> erect, 20–75 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 4–10; basal sheaths reddish to brownish; sheath of the distal leaf 2–10 cm; ligules rounded to triangular, 2–7 mm; blades 10–40 cm × 2–6 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> 10–42 cm; peduncles of proximal spikes 0.5–10.5 cm, basal 2 peduncles 2–10 cm apart; of terminal spike (3–)6–18 cm, exceeding the distal pistillate spike by 2–12 cm; bracts leafy, sheaths 0.5–5 cm; blades 10–30 cm × 2–4 mm. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3(–4), separate, 10–30-flowered, ovoid, 1.5–4.5 cm × 1.5–3 cm; terminal staminate spike 1, 0.5–7 cm × 2–3 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 3–7-veined, lanceolate-ovate, 4.5–6.5 × 1.5–2 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 3, 3–4.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> narrowly ovoid, 10–14 × 3.5–6 mm, shiny, glabrous; beak conic, 4.5–7 mm. <b>Achenes</b> broadly stipitate, rhomboid, flat faces, angles thickened, 2.5–3.5 × 1.7–2 mm; style same texture as achene.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Swamp forests, forest openings
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex louisianica
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex halei
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Swamp forests, forest openings
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1893
|special status=W1;Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Lupulinae
|species=Carex louisianica
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