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|accepted_name=Carex ormostachya
|accepted_authority=Wiegand
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=24: 196. 1922
|year=1922
}}
|common_names=Carex en chapelet
|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. Laxiflorae;Carex ormostachya
|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. Laxiflorae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex ormostachya]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 433, 437
|treatment_page=page 438
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>densely tufted, central, erect or ascending, 28–44 cm × 1.4–1.8 mm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths purple or slightly purple; sheaths 2–24 mm; blades erect or ascending, green or yellow-green, midrib developed adaxially, 2 lateral veins developed abaxially, flat, 12–28 cm × 3.5–12 mm, overwintering dead leaves lateral to new clumps, smooth adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles of lateral spikes 0–6.4 cm; of terminal spike 0.2–2.6 cm. <b>Bracts</b> 1.4–12.4 cm × 1–6 mm, angles of bract sheath smooth or minutely papillose, bract blade of distal lateral spikes linear. <b>Spikes</b> 4(–5) per culm; lateral spikes (15–)19–33 × 3.4–4 mm; internodes in proximalmost spikes 3.3–14 mm; terminal spike linear, 6–25 × 2–3 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 2.8–3 × 2–2.4 mm, apex apiculate or aristate. <b>Staminate</b> scales oblong ovate, 3.5–4.5 × 0.8–1.2 mm, margins hyaline or brownish, apex obtuse or acute. <b>Anthers</b> 2.4–2.8 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> 6–18 per spike, separate or loosely overlapping, finely, conspicuously (22–)25–32-veined, broadly obovate, 2.2–3.3 × 1.2–1.6 mm; beak curved, 0.1–0.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovoid, 2–2.8 × 1–1.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to dry deciduous, evergreen, or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, frequently sandy gravel or disturbed soils
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Pa.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex ormostachya
|authority=Wiegand
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to dry deciduous, evergreen, or mixed deciduous-evergreen forests, frequently sandy gravel or disturbed soils
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Pa.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1922
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_803.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Laxiflorae
|species=Carex ormostachya
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