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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex serpenticola
|accepted_authority=Zika
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=45: 261, figs. 1, 2, 3S. 1998
|year=1998
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Acrocystis;Carex serpenticola
|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. Acrocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex serpenticola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 532, 533, 534, 545
|treatment_page=page 544
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose or with solitary stems; rhizomes horizontal, purple to black, 25–75(–100) mm, slender. <b>Culms</b> 8–38 cm; bases (remnants of old leaves) weakly to strongly fibrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades green, 1.5–3.5(–5) mm wide, herbaceous, smooth to scabrous abaxially, smooth to scabrous adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually with either staminate or pistillate spikes, occasionally with both; peduncles of staminate spikes short; proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, dark purple to black at base, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 1–4 (basal spikes 0–1); cauline spikes overlapping or somewhat separted, with 4–9 perigynia; staminate spikes 13–24 × (1.4–)2–4.1 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales dark purple to black, with narrow white margins, lanceolate, 3.8–4.6 × 1.3–1.8 mm, apex acuminate; staminate scales oblanceolate, 4.6–5.6 × 1.1–1.6 mm, apex acute; proximal staminate scales with narrow white margins 0.1–0.2 mm wide. <b>Anthers</b> 2.1–4 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> green, occasionally dark purple in age, veinless or 5-veined near base, obovoid, 3.1–3.6 × 1.5–1.8 mm; beak slightly bent, dark purple, 0.5–1 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.2 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> pale to medium brown, globose, round in cross section, 1.9–2.2 × 1.4–1.8 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting mid Apr–mid Jun.
|habitat=Open or partly shaded, vernally moist to wet meadows, riparian woodlands, savannas, successional scrublands, wetland margins, serpentine soils derived from ultramafic bedrock
|elevation=60–1200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex serpenticola
|authority=Zika
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting mid Apr–mid Jun.
|habitat=Open or partly shaded, vernally moist to wet meadows, riparian woodlands, savannas, successional scrublands, wetland margins, serpentine soils derived from ultramafic bedrock
|elevation=60–1200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1998
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Acrocystis
|species=Carex serpenticola
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