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|accepted_name=Carex atlantica
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=20: 425. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Carex stellulata var. conferta
|authority=Chapman
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication_place=534. 1860,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Stellulatae;Carex atlantica
|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. Stellulatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex atlantica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 326, 327, 328, 330
|treatment_page=page 329
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>10–110 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 3–5 per culm; sheaths tight, inner band hyaline, 3.5–24 cm, apex concave, glabrous; ligules rounded to obtuse, 0.5–3.7 mm; blades plicate, 8–60 cm × 0.4–4(–4.5) mm, widest leaf 0.8–4(–4.5) mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.8–5.5 cm; spikes 2–8; lateral spikes pistillate often with a few staminate flowers proximally, 3.1–13.1 mm, sessile, staminate portion 10-flowered, to 6.5 mm, pistillate portion 3–40-flowered, 2.5–12 mm; basal 2 spikes 1.5–18 mm apart; terminal spike gynecandrous, 4.8–23.7 mm, staminate portion 2–21-flowered, 1.8–13.5 × 0.8–1.3 mm, pistillate portion 4–38-flowered, 3–11 × 4.4–7.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales ovate to ± suborbicular, 1.2–2.4 × 1.2–2 mm, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 1.3–3.5 × 0.8–1.4 mm, base clavate, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 0.6–1.5(–1.8) mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading to reflexed, green, 6–13-veined abaxially, (0–)1–12-veined adaxially over achene, broadly ovate to suborbicular, cuneate or concavely tapered from widest point to beak, 1.9–3.8 × (1.3–)2.1–3 mm, 1.1–1.7(–1.9) times as long as wide; beak 0.45–1.25 mm, 0.23–0.5(–0.63) length of body, serrulate, teeth 0.15–0.45 mm. <b>Achenes</b> deltate to rhombic-orbiculate, 1–1.9 × 1–1.7 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Widest leaves 1.6–4(–4.5) mm wide; inflorescences usually (1.5–)1.8–5.5 cm; perigynia 2.3–3.8 mm.
|[[Carex atlantica subsp. atlantica|Carex atlantica subsp. atlantica]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Widest leaves (0.65–)0.8–1.6 wide; inflorescences usually 0.8–2 cm; perigynia 1.9–3 mm.
|[[Carex atlantica subsp. capillacea|Carex atlantica subsp. capillacea]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex atlantica
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex stellulata var. conferta
|family=Cyperaceae
|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Vt.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1893
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Stellulatae
|species=Carex atlantica
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