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|accepted_name=Carex parryana
|accepted_authority=Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=27: 239, fig. 65. 1835
|year=1835
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex arctica
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Racemosae;Carex parryana
|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. Racemosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex parryana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 402, 403, 407
|treatment_page=page 408
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 10–35 cm, distally scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 2–4 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b>: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences; spikes erect, separate, proximal spikes occasionally distant, pedunculate, short-oblong or cylindric, 5–20 × 2–3 mm; lateral 2–5 spikes pistillate, distalmost often reduced to 1–3 perigynia, of varying lengths, proximal 1 or more as long as the terminal spike; terminal spike pistillate, gynecandrous (proportion of pistillate to staminate flowers variable, as few as 2 or 3 perigynia at summit), or wholly staminate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales light to dark brown, distal margins broadly hyaline, ovate, as long and as wide as perigynia, midvein lighter colored than body, conspicuous, often raised, prominent, distally scabrous, apex rounded, acute or mucronate. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, greenish yellow or brown, veinless, elliptic, 2–2.5 × 1–1.5 mm, apex abruptly beaked, papillose; beak to 0.2 mm, truncate or obscurely bidentate, serrulate. <b>Achenes</b> nearly filling body of perigynia.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting May–Aug.
|habitat=Alkaline meadows, lake margins, roadsides, ditches
|elevation=200–2500 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Utah;Wyo.
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name=Carex parryana
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex arctica
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting May–Aug.
|habitat=Alkaline meadows, lake margins, roadsides, ditches
|elevation=200–2500 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1835
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Racemosae
|species=Carex parryana
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