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|accepted_name=Carex exilis
|accepted_authority=Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=14: 351, plate Q, figs. 53, 54. 1828
|year=1828
}}
|common_names=Carex maigre
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Stellulatae;Carex exilis
|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 exilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 323, 326
|treatment_page=page 327
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>12–80 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 2–6 per culm; sheaths tight, inner band hyaline, 3.5–21 cm, apex concave, glabrous; ligules rounded, 0.8–1.8 × 0.6–1.6 mm; blades involute, 4–70 cm × 0.4–1.5 mm, widest leaf 0.8–1.5 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.6–4 cm; spike 1 (occasionally 1–3 smaller accessory spikes), gynecandrous with staminate portion of spike 1–3 mm wide, to 50-flowered and pistillate portion of spike 5–9.5 mm wide, to 27-flowered or plants sometimes unisexual with staminate and pistillate spikes on different plants. <b>Pistillate</b> scales ovate, 1.8–3.3 × 1.3–2.2 mm, apex acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales lanceolate to ovate, 1.7–5.5 × 1–2.2 mm, apex acute. <b>Anthers</b> (2–)2.2–3.6 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading to reflexed, castaneous to dark brown, 15-veined abaxially, faintly 7-veined adaxially, lanceolate-ovate to broadly ovate, 2.6–4.7 × 1.25–2.3 mm, 1.3–2.65 times as long as wide; beak 0.5–1.7 mm, 0.2–0.65 length of body, serrulate, teeth blunt, to 0.35 mm, soft. <b>Achenes</b> ovate, 1.4–2.2 × 1.2–1.7 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Fens, bogs
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex exilis
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Fens, bogs
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;Vt.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1828
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Stellulatae
|species=Carex exilis
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