Carex laevigata

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

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|parent = Carex sect. Spirostachyae

|taxon = Carex laevigata

|authority = Sm.

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Carex laevigata, the smooth-stalked sedge,{{BSBI 2007 |accessdate=2014-10-17 }} is a species of sedge. It lives in moist, shady environment in the lowlands of Western and Central Europe, particularly in alder–ash woodland.{{cite book |author1=A. C. Jermy |author2=D. A. Simpson |author3=M. J. Y. Foley |author4=M. S. Porter |year=2007 |title=Sedges of the British Isles |edition=3rd |series=BSBI Handbook No. 1 |isbn=978-0-901158-35-2 |publisher=Botanical Society of the British Isles |chapter=Carex laevigata Sm. |pages=356–357}} It is distinguished from similar species, such as C. binervis and C. distans by the presence of tiny red dots on the utricles. Carex laevigata was first described by James Edward Smith in 1800, in a paper in the journal Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.{{cite journal |author=James Edward Smith |author-link=James Edward Smith (botanist) |year=1800 |title=Descriptions of five new British species of Carex |journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London |volume=5 |issue=19 |pages=264–273 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46568#page/312/mode/1up |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1800.tb00600.x}}