Carex macrocephala

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

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|image=Carex macrocephala 3793834.jpg

|image_caption=At the Pacific Spirit Regional Park

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|image2_caption=Peter Pearsall/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

|genus=Carex

|species=macrocephala

|authority=Willd. ex Spreng.

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• Carex anthericoides {{small|J.Presl & C.Presl}}
• Carex macrocephala subsp. anthericoides {{small|(C.Presl) Hultén}}
• Carex macrocephala var. bracteata {{small|Holm}}
• Carex macrocephala f. bracteata {{small|(Holm) Kük.}}
• Carex menziesiana {{small|Sm. ex Boott}}
• Vignea macrocephala {{small|(Willd. ex Spreng.) Soják}}

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Carex macrocephala, the big-head sedge or largehead sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae.{{cite web |url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CAMA10 |title=Carex macrocephala |author= |date=1 January 2007 |website=wildflower.org |publisher=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center |access-date=7 July 2022 }} It is found on the beaches and dunes of the northern Pacific; Japan, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, the Kurils and Kamchatka in the Russian Far East, and Alaska, British Columbia, Washington state and Oregon in North America.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:300810-1 |title=Carex macrocephala Willd. ex Spreng. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=7 July 2022 }}