Carex canescens

{{Short description|Species of grass-like plant}}

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|parent = Carex sect. Canescentes

|taxon = Carex canescens

|authority = L.

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Carex canescens L. (syn. C. cinerea Poll.; C. curta Gooden.) is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae growing in damp forests and wetlands. It is widespread across much of Europe,{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1158895781|title=Nordens flora|date=2020|publisher=Gyldendal|others=Bo Mossberg, Lennart Stenberg, Jon Feilberg, Anna Torsteinsrud, Victoria Widmark|isbn=978-87-02-28916-9|edition=Nye, udvidede og omarbejdede udgave|location=Kbh.|oclc=1158895781}} Asia, Australia, New Guinea, North America, Greenland{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183098604|title=Grønlands flora|date=1978|publisher=P. Haase & Sons|others=Tyge Wittrock Böcher|isbn=87-559-0385-1|edition=3. reviderede udgave|location=København|oclc=183098604}} and southern South America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=225264 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101037 Flora of North America][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242101037 Flora of China][http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=carex+canescens Flora Italiana]

The plant has been found as an invasive species in Sphagnum peatlands disturbed by peat extraction in southern Patagonia.{{Cite journal |title=Efectos de la extracción de turba sobre la composición y estructura de una turbera de Sphagnum explotada y abandonada hace 20 años, Chile |journal=Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia |url=https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-686X2012000200003 |last=Domínguez |first=Erwin |issue=2 |volume=40 |pages=37-45 |last2=Bahamonde |first2=Nelson |language=Spanish |trans-title=Effects of peat extraction on the structure and composition of Sphagnum peatland exploited and abandones for 20 years, Chile |last3=Muñoz-Escobar |first3=Christian}}

;Subspecies

• Carex canescens subsp. canescens – Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, New Guinea
• Carex canescens subsp. disjuncta (Fernald) Toivonen – eastern Canada, eastern United States
• Carex canescens var. robustior Blytt ex Andersson – Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands