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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex arcta
|accepted_authority=Boott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ill. Carex,
|place=155, plate 497. 1867
|year=1867
}}
|common_names=Carex dru
|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 canescens var. oregana
|authority=L. H. Bailey
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex canescens var. polystachya
|authority=Boott
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex heleonastes var. scabriuscula
|authority=Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex kunzei
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Glareosae;Carex arcta
|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. Glareosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex arcta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 317, 312
|treatment_page=page 321
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose; rhizomes short. <b>Culms</b> erect, slender, 15–80 cm, very rough distally. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths pale to gray-brown abaxially, inner band thin, hyaline, conspicuously purplish dotted, concave at summit; ligules acute, longer than wide; blades pale to gray-green, flat, 15–50 cm × 2–4 mm, shorter than to exceeding culms. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect, ovoid-oblong, 1.5–4 cm × 7–12 mm; proximal bracts (sometimes also 2d) bristlelike-prolonged, from short to clearly exceeding spikes, distal bracts usually scalelike. <b>Spikes</b> 5–15, gynecandrous, proximal often slightly separate, distal closely approximate (sometimes hardly recognizable), containing 10–20 perigynia, sessile, oblong, 5–10 × 4–6 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline with green center, often brown tinged, ovate, shorter than perigynia, apex obtuse to short-cuspidate. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading-ascending, greenish, often brown in age, several-veined, ovate, widest near base, 2–3(–3.5) × 1.25–1.5 mm, minutely papillose (membranous); beak abaxial suture conspicuous, 0.75–1.25 mm, margin serrulate. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, ovate, 1.25–1.5 1 mm, dull to slightly glossy. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Swampy (coniferous) woods and thickets, wet meadows
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Calif.;Idaho;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex arcta
|authority=Boott
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex canescens var. oregana;Carex canescens var. polystachya;Carex heleonastes var. scabriuscula;Carex kunzei
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Swampy (coniferous) woods and thickets, wet meadows
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Calif.;Idaho;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ill. Carex,
|publication year=1867
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Glareosae
|species=Carex arcta
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