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|accepted_name=Carex lupulina
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 266. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Carex houblon
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Lupulinae;Carex lupulina
|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. Lupulinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex lupulina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 508, 509, 512
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose or not, short-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> solitary or not, erect, 20–100(–130) cm. <b>Leaves</b> 4–8; basal sheaths reddish to brownish; sheath of distal leaf (1.3–)1.7–10(–25) cm; ligules triangular, 3.5–18 mm; blades 15–64 cm × 4–15 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> 4–40 cm; peduncles of proximal spikes 0.5–20 cm, basal 2 peduncles 1–20 cm apart of terminal spike 0.5–6(–7) cm, shorter than or exceeding distal pistillate spike by 2 cm or less; bracts leafy, sheaths 0.5–15 cm, blades 13–55 cm × 3–11 mm. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes (1–)2–5, distal spikes usually ± crowded, ascending, densely (4–)8–80-flowered, ovoid to cylindric, 1.5–6.5 × 1.3–3 cm; terminal staminate spikes 1(–2), 1.5–8.5 cm × 1–5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 1–7-veined, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 6–15 × 1–2.7 mm, apex acute to awned, awns rough, to 6 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 3, 3–5.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, strongly 13–22-veined, ± stipitate, lance-ovoid, 11–19 × 3–6 mm, shiny, glabrous; beak conic, 6–10 mm. <b>Achenes</b> stipitate, rhomboid, flat to concave faces, angles smoothly thickened, not pointed or nobbed, 3–4(–4.5) × 1.7–2.6(–2.8) mm; style same texture as achene.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Wet, deciduous or mixed swamp forests, forest openings, wet meadows
|elevation=0–700 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Occasional specimens have been seen that appear to be sterile hybrids of <i>Carex lupulina</i> with <i>C. retrorsa</i> or <i>C. lurida</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex lupulina
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–summer.
|habitat=Wet, deciduous or mixed swamp forests, forest openings, wet meadows
|elevation=0–700 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_957.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Lupulinae
|species=Carex lupulina
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