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|accepted_name=Carex plantaginea
|accepted_authority=Lamarck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|place=3: 392. 1789
|year=1789
}}
|common_names=Carex plantain
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Careyanae;Carex plantaginea
|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. Careyanae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex plantaginea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 443, 448
|treatment_page=page 447
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> lateral, erect or ascending, usually overtopping vegetative shoots, 24–54 cm × 0.7–1 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths purple, 7–18 mm; blades erect or ascending, evergreen, midrib and 2 lateral veins strongly developed, 14–42 cm × 8–32 mm, older leaves often shriveling or dead at tips. <b>Inflorescences</b>: spikes 3–5 per culm, scattered; peduncle of pistillate spikes erect or spreading, rarely drooping, exserted 0–18 mm; bracts from middle and proximal portions of culms reduced, 0.8–2 cm × 2–3.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> spikes the proximal basal, 8–30 × 4–7 mm. <b>Staminate</b> spike 1, pedunculate, oblanceolate to linear, 8–20 × 2–3.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales slightly keeled, 3.2–4.2 × 1.8–2.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline with purple outward, apex cuspidate to acuminate to acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales 3–6 × 1.5–2 mm, midveins green or purple, margins dark purple, apex obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 3.2–4.2 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> (4–)9–13(–15) per spike, overlapping, finely veined, elliptic, 3.7–4.9 × 1.6–2 mm; beak constricted. <b>Achenes</b> ovoid, 2.2–2.7 × 1.5–1.9 mm, sides flat to slightly concave at maturity, tightly fitting in perigynia. <b>Style</b> ascending from achene through entire orifice. <b>2n</b> = 50, 52.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Rich, moist, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, on slopes along streams or along edges of moist depressions, southward in mountain gorges
|elevation=100–600 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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name=Carex plantaginea
|authority=Lamarck
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Rich, moist, deciduous or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, on slopes along streams or along edges of moist depressions, southward in mountain gorges
|elevation=100–600 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|publication year=1789
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Careyanae
|species=Carex plantaginea
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