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|accepted_name=Carex lutea
|accepted_authority=LeBlond
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=16: 155, fig. 1. 1994
|year=1994
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ceratocystis;Carex lutea
|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. Ceratocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex lutea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 521, 524
|treatment_page=page 525
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose. <b>Culms</b> straight, (40–)65–110(–125) cm, tallest culms 65–125 cm. <b>Leaves</b> of flowering stems shorter than culms, to 28 cm × 1.8–3.8 mm; ligules on distal cauline leaves truncate or rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of terminal staminate spikes (3–)10–60(–102) mm, 0.7–2.5 length of staminate spikes; bracts 5–25 cm × 1.2–2.5 mm, 0.5–1.3(–1.9) times as long as inflorescences; inner band of sheaths usually concave or truncate (occasionally convex). <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 1–2(–3), distant, sessile or short-pedunculate, globose to ellipsoid or short-cylindric, 7–27 × 8–11 mm; terminal staminate spikes pedunculate, (9–)17–39 × 1.4–2.5 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales pale yellowish green, inconspicuous among perigynia, 2.1–3.3 × 0.9–1.3 mm; staminate scales reddish brown to pale brown, narrowly obovate to narrowly oblong, 2.9–5.6 × 1.2–1.9 mm, margins wide, pale hyaline, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Anthers</b> 2.1–3.6 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> reflexed, yellow to yellowish green, (3.5–)3.9–5.2(–5.8) × 1.4–2.2 mm, apex abruptly narrowed; beak forming angle greater than 20° with body, 1.4–2.2 mm, sparsely scabrous or, occasionally, smooth. <b>Achenes</b> 1.4–1.9 × 1.2–1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting May–Jun.
|habitat=Sandy soils over limestone, in the ecotone between longleaf pine savannas and non-riverine swamp forests, where fire has suppressed shrub dominance, on lime-rich soils
|distribution=N.C.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Carex lutea</i>, a recently discovered species of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, is widely disjunct from other species of the section. The nearest known population of another member of the section (<i>C. viridula </i>var.<i> viridula</i>) is about 750 km to the north in New Jersey.</p>
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name=Carex lutea
|authority=LeBlond
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting May–Jun.
|habitat=Sandy soils over limestone, in the ecotone between longleaf pine savannas and non-riverine swamp forests, where fire has suppressed shrub dominance, on lime-rich soils
|distribution=N.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1994
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ceratocystis
|species=Carex lutea
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