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Carex careyana is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Careyanae
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Carex careyana Torrey ex Dewey
Carex careyana is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Careyanae

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    taxon/id/Carex careyana Torrey ex Dewey
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    Carex careyana Torrey ex Dewey
    Carex careyana
    Torrey ex Dewey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Carey (French)
    Carey's sedge (English)
    Carey's wood sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    moist deciduous
    deciduous-evergreen forests
    slopes
    limestone escarpments
    adjacent rocky woods
    washes
    cave entrances
    Plants densely cespitose.
    Culms lateral, lax, drooping, or decumbent, 34–62 cm × 1–1.2 mm.
    Leaves: basal sheaths purple, sheaths 15–29 mm;
    blades erect or ascending, green, midrib and 2 lateral-veins strongly developed, 14–48 cm × 4–18 mm, older ones shriveling or dead at tips.
    Inflorescences: spikes (2–) 3– (–4) per culm, scattered;
    peduncle of pistillate spike usually erect or spreading, rarely drooping, exserted 0–11.5 cm;
    bracts sheaths green, occasionally with purple traces, from middle and proximal portions of culms with blades 2.1–9.2 cm × 1–4 mm.
    Pistillate spikes proximal sometimes basal, 7–18 × 4–7 mm.
    Staminate spike 1, pedunculate, oblanceolate to linear, 8–20 × 2–3.5 mm.
    Pistillate scales keeled, 3.5–4.2 × 1.8–2.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, occasionally purple-tinged outward, apex cuspidate to acute.
    Staminate scales 4–6 × 1.8–2.2 mm, midribs green, margins hyaline, purple outward, apex obtuse.
    Anthers 3.4–3.7 mm.
    Perigynia 4–9 per spike, overlapping, finely veined, ovoid, 5–6.6 × 2.5–3 mm;
    Achenes broadly ovoid, 4.5–6 × 2.4–2.8 mm, slightly to distinctly concave at maturity, tightly fitting in perigynia.