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|accepted_name=Carex nardina
|accepted_authority=Fries
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant.
|place=2: 55. 1839
|year=1839
}}
|common_names=Carex à odeur de nard
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex elyniformis
|authority=A. E. Porsild
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex hepburnii
|authority=Boott
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex nardina var. atriceps
|authority=Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex nardina subsp. hepburnii
|authority=(Boott) Á. Löve, D. Löve & B. M. Kapoor
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex nardina var. hepburnii
|authority=(Boott) Kükenthal
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex stantonensis
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Nardinae;Carex nardina
|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. Nardinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex nardina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 567
|treatment_page=page 569
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Pistillate </b>scales brown, distal margins broadly hyaline, ovate, as wide and as long as or slightly shorter than perigynia, midvein slightly raised. <b>Perigynia</b> green becoming light brown at maturity, 3–5 × 1.4–2 mm, distal margins serrulate; beak tip brown or hyaline. <b>2n</b> = 68, 70.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Exposed arctic and alpine tundra, usually calcareous, cliffs, rocky slopes, ridges, and summits
|elevation=50–3300 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Much has been written about variation in <i>Carex nardina</i>, but little has been resolved. Russian taxonomists have long maintained that <i>C. nardina</i> is a species restricted to Iceland, Svalbard, Noway, and Sweden and is distinct at the rank of species from C. hepburnii (T. V. Egorova 1999). The differences of perigynia, cited by Egorova and well illustrated in A. Cronquist (1969), can define two taxa, which have been viewed as minor variations (E. Hultén 1958) or good species. The Scandinavian material does appear to constitute a single taxon, <i>C. nardina</i>.</p><!--
--><p>In North America both forms occur, but without the clear geographic limits offered by A. E. Porsild (1943). <i>Carex nardina</i> and C. hepburnii differ in the following characteristics: perigynia shape: ovate or spindle-shaped versus obovate or broadly elliptic; size: (3–)3.5–5 × 1.4–1.6 mm versus 3–5 × 1.5–2mm; beak formation and size: gradually formed, 0.5 mm, obscure to 0.4 mm; stipe formation and size: distinct, 0.5–1 mm verusus obscure (less than 0.2 mm); and range: Iceland, Svalbard, Norway, North America, Russian Far East versus Sweden and possibly North America. In time, perhaps, a clearer picture of the taxa in North America will emerge.</p><!--
--><p><i>Carex nardina</i> superficially resembles taxa in <i>Carex </i>sect.<i> Filifoliae</i> and can be confused with <i>Kobresia myosuroides</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex nardina
|authority=Fries
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex elyniformis;Carex hepburnii;Carex nardina var. atriceps;Carex nardina subsp. hepburnii;Carex nardina var. hepburnii;Carex stantonensis
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Exposed arctic and alpine tundra, usually calcareous, cliffs, rocky slopes, ridges, and summits
|elevation=50–3300 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant.
|publication year=1839
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_1087.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Nardinae
|species=Carex nardina
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