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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex albicans
|accepted_authority=Willdenow ex Sprengel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Veg
|place=3: 818. 1826
|year=1826
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Acrocystis;Carex albicans
|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 albicans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 534
|treatment_page=page 541
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes ascending or horizontally spreading, reddish brown to dark reddish purple, 0–70 mm, slender. <b>Culms</b> 10–45 cm, smooth to scabrous distally; bases (remnants of old leaves) slightly or not at all fibrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades pale to bright green, shorter to longer than culms, 0.8–2.5 mm wide, herbaceous, smooth to scabrous abaxially, papillose to scabrous adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of staminate spikes 0.4–9.9 mm; proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 1–4 (basal spikes 0); cauline spikes overlapping, proximal 2 spikes usually separated by less than 7 mm, with 4–14 perigynia; staminate spikes 5–14 × 0.5–1.8 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales pale to dark reddish brown, with narrow white margins, lanceolate to ovate or obovate, 2.2–3.4 × 0.4–1.8 mm, equaling or exceeding perigynia, apex usually acuminate, sometimes acute or mucronate; staminate scales lanceolate to ovate, 2.8–6 × 0.6–1.9 mm, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> 1.5–2.7 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green, veinless, ellipsoid, 2.3–3.3 × 0.8–1.2 mm, longer than wide; beak straight, pale green, 0.6–1.1 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.4 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> brown, ellipsoid, acutely trigonous in cross section, 1.2–1.7 × 0.7–1.3 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Nebr.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Rhizomes long, horizontally spreading.
|[[Carex albicans var. australis|Carex albicans var. australis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Rhizomes short, ascending to erect.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Scales from median portion of staminate spike without prominent midrib extending to tip and without minute teeth on midrib (15X); perigynium apical teeth 0.2–0.3 mm; staminate spikes 8.4–11.1 mm.
|[[Carex albicans var. albicans|Carex albicans var. albicans]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Scales from median portion of staminate spike with either prominent midrib extending to tip (and sometimes beyond) or minute teeth on midrib (15X); perigynium apical teeth 0.1–0.3 mm; staminate spikes 2.8–4 mm.
|[[Carex albicans var. emmonsii|Carex albicans var. emmonsii]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex albicans
|authority=Willdenow ex Sprengel
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Nebr.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Veg
|publication year=1826
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_1019.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Acrocystis
|species=Carex albicans
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