Carex festucacea

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

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| image = Carex festucacea NRCS-1.jpg

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| genus = Carex

| display_parents = 2

| parent = Carex sect. Ovales

| species = festucacea

| authority = Schkuhr ex Willd.

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Carex festucacea, or fescue sedge, is a species of sedge that lives in eastern North America. It has been described as "a soft, gray green, wisp, to 2', with narrow leaves and somewhat taller stems, topped by an interrupted spike, with lower spikelets, shaped a bit like an overflowing ice cream cone. The spike axis is often arched at the summit, but the alternating spikelets around the axis create a zig zag appearance. The seed sacs have a humped shoulder."{{cite book |author=Dick Young |title=Kane County Wild Plants & Natural Areas |edition=2nd |year=1994}}