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|accepted_name=Carex vernacula
|accepted_authority=L. H. Bailey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club.
|place=20: 417. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex foetida var. vernacula
|authority=(L. H. Bailey) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Foetidae;Carex vernacula
|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. Foetidae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex vernacula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 308, 309
|treatment_page=page 311
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose or colonial. <b>Culms</b> erect, straight, bluntly trigonous, 8–40 cm, smooth to slightly scabrous-angled distally. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths dark brown; ligules 0.4–1.7 mm; blades flat, shorter than culms, (1.5–)2–3.5(–4) mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.8–1.6 cm; spikes ca. 5–15, indistinguishable in dense, globose to ovoid head. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown to blackish, ± translucent, lacking whitish hyaline margins, ovate, ± equaling perigynia, apex acute to acuminate, body shiny. <b>Anthers</b> 1.5–2.8 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale yellowish brown proximally, reddish brown to blackish distally and on beak, finely 5–9-veined abaxially, faintly veined or essentially veinless adaxially, flattened, not inflated, narrowly to broadly elliptic, 3.3–4.6 × 1.1–1.9 mm, membranous, shiny; stipe 0.2–0.6 mm; beak well defined, 0.9–1.5 mm, smooth-margined.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Moist alpine tundra, moist forest openings just below treeline
|elevation=2000–3800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Oreg.;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex vernacula</i> is very similar to and often united with the European <i>C. foetida</i> Allioni, which has serrulate-margined perigynium beak and proportionately longer leaves. The numerous distinctions drawn between these two by K. K. Mackenzie (1931–1935, parts 2–3, pp. 29–30) have not proved consistent with examination of more material.</p>
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name=Carex vernacula
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex foetida var. vernacula
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Moist alpine tundra, moist forest openings just below treeline
|elevation=2000–3800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Oreg.;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club.
|publication year=1893
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Foetidae
|species=Carex vernacula
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