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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex saximontana
|accepted_authority=Mackenzie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=33: 439. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|common_names=Rocky Mountain sedge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex backii var. saximontana
|authority=(Mackenzie) B. Boivin
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex backii var. subrostrata
|authority=(Bates) Dorn
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex durifolia var. subrostrata
|authority=Bates
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phyllostachyae;Carex saximontana
|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. Phyllostachyae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex saximontana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 558, 560
|treatment_page=page 562
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>2.5–34 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths pale to medium brown; blades dark green to greenish glaucous, 1.9–4.9 mm wide, longer than stems, coriaceous, margins white-hyaline, smooth or scabrous. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 0–2, basal, on erect peduncles. <b>Terminal</b> spikes with staminate portion 2–3-flowered, 1.6–3.4 × 0.5–1.6 mm; pistillate portion 2–6-flowered. <b>Pistillate</b> scales green; proximal scales with margins 2.4–4.6 mm wide, essentially concealing perigynia, apex acute; distal scales lanceolate to ovate, apex awned to acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales green or white, ovate to oblong, 1.5–3 × 1–1.6 mm, margins connate near base or for entire length, enfolding scales above, white or with brown subapical band, apex obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 1–1.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green, obovoid, 3.2–4.9 × 1.6–2.5 mm, tightly enveloping achenes, apex abruptly tapered, papillose on distal 1/3; beak 0.6–1.2 mm, scabrous. <b>Stigmas</b> clavate, erect, short, thick, minutely papillose. <b>Achenes</b> pale to dark brown, obpyriform, 2.5–3 × 1.6–2.4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 64.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (late May–mid Jul).
|habitat=Moist to dry, open prairies, pine, and deciduous woodlands, on ridges and slopes
|elevation=200–2100 m
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Sask.;Colo.;Minn.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Dak.;S.Dak.;Wyo.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex saximontana
|authority=Mackenzie
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex backii var. saximontana;Carex backii var. subrostrata;Carex durifolia var. subrostrata
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (late May–mid Jul).
|habitat=Moist to dry, open prairies, pine, and deciduous woodlands, on ridges and slopes
|elevation=200–2100 m
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Sask.;Colo.;Minn.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Dak.;S.Dak.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1906
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_1070.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
|species=Carex saximontana
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