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|accepted_name=Carex sprengelii
|accepted_authority=Dewey ex Sprengel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Veg.
|place=3: 827. 1826
|year=1826
}}
|common_names=Sprengel’s sedge;long-beaked sedge;carex de Sprengel
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex longirostris
|authority=Torrey
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae;Carex sprengelii
|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. Hymenochlaenae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex sprengelii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 255, 461, 462
|treatment_page=page 473
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with short-creeping rhizomes, loosely cespitose, forming colonies. <b>Culms</b> brown at base, densely covered with brown fibrillose remains of previous year’s leaves; flowering stems 30–90 cm, longer than leaves at maturity, 0.5–0.7 mm thick, glabrous but finely scabrous within inflorescence. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glabrous, basal ones tinged with brown and all bearing blades, green to hyaline on back, white-hyaline on front; blades flat, 2.5–4 mm wide, finely scabrous on adaxial surface and margins, glabrous on abaxial surface. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of lateral spikes slender, 20–60 mm, equaling or somewhat longer than spikes, finely scabrous; peduncle of terminal spike 5–15 mm, scabrous; proximal bracts equaling inflorescences or more often shorter; sheaths 3–5 mm or rarely longer; blades 1–1.5 mm wide. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 4–5, 1 per node; proximal spikes well separated, nodding or drooping at maturity, pistillate with 10–40 perigynia about 1 mm apart, cylindric, 10–35 × 8–10 mm; distal spikes crowded near apex, sessile or nearly so, staminate or androgynous, linear, less than 20 mm. <b>Terminal</b> spike staminate or rarely with a few perigynia at base, 10–20 × 1.5–2 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales pale hyaline tinged with chestnut, narrow midrib green, sometimes finely scabrous, ovate-oblong, shorter than mature perigynia, apex long-acuminate, glabrous. <b>Perigynia</b> shiny tan to golden green, 2-ribbed, but otherwise veinless, closely enveloping achene at maturity, ovoid-ellipsoid, 4.5–6.5 × 1.5–2 mm, membranous, base acute, apex abruptly contracted to beak, glabrous; beak bidentate, narrowly tubular, nearly as long as body, finely scabrous on edge, teeth hyaline, 1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> substipitate, 2–2.5 × 1.7–1.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 42.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early to mid summer.
|habitat=Dry to mesic deciduous forests and forest openings, floodplain forests and riverbanks, lakeshores, limestone river bluffs, mixed conifer-hardwood forests, thickets, meadows, roadsides, often associated with calcareous rocks and soils
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Vt.;Wis.;Wyo.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex sprengelii
|authority=Dewey ex Sprengel
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex longirostris
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early to mid summer.
|habitat=Dry to mesic deciduous forests and forest openings, floodplain forests and riverbanks, lakeshores, limestone river bluffs, mixed conifer-hardwood forests, thickets, meadows, roadsides, often associated with calcareous rocks and soils
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Vt.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Veg.
|publication year=1826
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_868.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae
|species=Carex sprengelii
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