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|accepted_name=Carex spicata
|accepted_authority=Hudson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Angl.,
|place=349. 1762
|year=1762
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex spicata
|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 spicata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 287, 291
|treatment_page=page 292
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 10–85 cm, 1.8–2.2 mm wide basally, 0.5–0.9 mm wide distally; basal scales and sheaths usually red or purple tinged. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline; ligules (3.5–)4–8 mm, longer than wide; widest leaf blades 2–4 mm wide, often papillose adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 3–8 spikes, 1–4 cm × 6–10 mm; proximal internodes as long as or slightly longer than proximal spikes; proximal bracts to 2 cm; spikes with 5–10 spreading to ascending perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales brown with green 1–3-veined center, lanceolate to ovate, 3.2–4.5 × 1.7–2.2 mm, body slightly shorter and slightly narrower than perigynium, apex acuminate to short-awned. <b>Anthers</b> 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> greenish brown finally becoming black and glossy, veinless or to 7-veined abaxially, 4–5.5 × 2.2–2.4 mm, base of body somewhat spongy, thickened, margins serrulate distally; beak 1.5–2 mm, apical teeth 0.3–0.6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> suborbiculate, 2–2.3 × 2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 58.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Fields, pastures, lawns
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Europe;w Asia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Carex spicata</i> is common in some areas and almost certainly under-recorded. The reports of <i>C. spicata</i> from Virginia are erroneous.</p><!--
--><p>The red or purple coloration, though often sparse and highly localized at the base of the plant, is diagnostic for <i>Carex spicata</i>, which is one of the few species in subg. Vignea possessing such coloration.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex spicata
|authority=Hudson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Fields, pastures, lawns
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Europe;w Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Angl.,
|publication year=1762
|special status=Introduced;Illustrated
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex spicata
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