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|accepted_name=Carex hirta
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 975. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Carex hérissé
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Carex;Carex hirta
|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. Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex hirta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 473, 498, 500
|treatment_page=page 501
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>trigonous in cross section, (10–)20–90 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths brown, reddish purple tinged, inner bands slightly fibrillose with age; sheaths spreading pubescent; ligules 2–8(–10.5) mm; blades spreading, 2.5–8 mm wide, pubescent, not papillose abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> 8–50 cm; spikes erect or ascending; proximal (1–)2–3 spikes pistillate; terminal 1–3 spikes staminate. <b>Pistillate</b> scales ovate, apex acute to acuminate, scabrous-awned, sparsely spreading-pubescent or glabrous. <b>Staminate</b> scales ovate, apex obtuse to acuminate, shortly scabrous-awned except sometimes the proximal, sparsely to densely spreading-white-pubescent. <b>Perigynia</b> 12–20-veined, 4.8–7.8 × 1.7–2.5 mm, ± densely spreading-pubescent; beak 1.5–2.7 mm, spreading-pubescent, teeth spreading, 0.8–1.7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 112–114.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry to wet fields, ditches, roadsides, railroad embankments, disturbed stream banks, lakeshores, and open forests
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;Wis.;Eurasia;introduced New Zealand.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Carex hirta</i> was first collected in North America in 1877 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and in 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Completely glabrous forms, known from Eurasia, have not yet been found in North America.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex hirta
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry to wet fields, ditches, roadsides, railroad embankments, disturbed stream banks, lakeshores, and open forests
|elevation=0–600 m
|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;Wis.;Eurasia;introduced New Zealand.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_932.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Carex
|species=Carex hirta
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