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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex media
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea,
|place=750. 1823
|year=1823
}}
|common_names=Carex moyen
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex alpina var. inferalpina
|authority=Wahlenberg
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex angare
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex norvegica subsp. inferalpina
|authority=(Wahlenberg) Hultén
|rank=subspecies
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Racemosae;Carex media
|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. Racemosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex media]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 402, 404
|treatment_page=page 406
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely or loosely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 15–50(–70) cm, distally scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 2–4 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b>: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescence; lateral 1–2(–4) spikes pistillate; proximal spikes distant, erect, and short-pedunculate; distal lateral and/or terminal spikes overlapping, sessile, contiguous, and forming dense terminal cluster, globose or oblong, 5–12 × 3–6 mm; terminal spike gynecandrous. <b>Pistillate</b> scales dark brown to black to margins or distally hyaline, ovate or lanceolate, shorter than (often 1/2 the length), as broad as perigynia, midvein same color as body, inconspicuous. <b>Perigynia</b> erect or spreading, proximal ones sometimes reflexed, pale green becoming golden brown, veinless or few-veined from base to summit, ovate, 2.5–3.5 mm, distal margins occasionally serrulate, apex gradually or abruptly beaked, smooth or papillose; beak 0.3–0.4 mm, bidentate, smooth or serrulate. <b>Achenes</b> nearly filling body of perigynia.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Forest openings, meadows, bog margins
|elevation=100–1800 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Iowa;Maine;Mich.;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.;Wis.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex media</i> is circumboreal with extensions southward to the mountains of Montana, Oregon, and Washington, the driftless area of Iowa and Wisconsin, and the maritime provinces of eastern Canada. It occurs together with <i>C. norvegica</i> only in Quebec and Newfoundland (Labrador), where intermediates are known. All references to <i>C. norvegica</i> west of Hudson Bay are to this species.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex media
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex alpina var. inferalpina;Carex angare;Carex norvegica subsp. inferalpina
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Forest openings, meadows, bog margins
|elevation=100–1800 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Iowa;Maine;Mich.;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.;Wis.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea,
|publication year=1823
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_728.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Racemosae
|species=Carex media
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