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|accepted_name=Carex sparganioides
|accepted_authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 237. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Carex faux-rubanier
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex sparganioides
|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. Phaestoglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex sparganioides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 286, 296
|treatment_page=page 297
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 30–100 cm, 3–6 mm wide basally, 0.7–1.1 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal sheaths loose, longitudinally green-and-white-striped, green-and-white-mottled, with prominent cross veins on backs, fronts hyaline and transversely rugose; ligules 3–8 mm, as long as wide; widest leaf blades 5–10 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 6–15 spikes, 3–15 cm × 8–12 mm, occasionally compound and then somewhat larger; proximal internodes usually 20+ mm, more than 2 times as long as proximal spikes; proximal bracts to 2 cm; spikes with up to 50 ascending to spreading perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline with green midvein, ovate to subcircular, 1.8–2.5 × 1.1–1.8 mm, body 1/2 length of perigynium, apex obtuse to acuminate or short-awned. <b>Anthers</b> 0.7–1.3 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green, with wing 0.1–0.2 mm wide distally, veinless or weakly veined abaxially, 3.3–4.3 × 1.5–2.5 mm, margins serrulate distally; beak 0.8–1.2 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> suborbiculate, 1.7–2.2 × 1.5–1.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 46, 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to moist deciduous and mixed forests, forest edges, on neutral or basic soils
|elevation=50–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex sparganioides
|authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to moist deciduous and mixed forests, forest edges, on neutral or basic soils
|elevation=50–300 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex sparganioides
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