Carex capitata

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

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| genus = Carex

| species = capitata

| authority = L.

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Carex capitata is a species of sedge known by the common name capitate sedge. It has a circumboreal distribution{{Cite web|title=Pan-arctic flora: Home|url=http://panarcticflora.org/3309#paf-3309135|access-date=2021-06-19|website=panarcticflora.org}} including Norway, Russia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada and 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}}{{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}} Growing in wet places in boreal forests and mountain meadows in alpine climates.