Carex praecox

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus=Carex

|species=praecox

|authority=Schreb.Spic. Fl. Lips.: 63 (1771)

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• Carex arenaria Dubois ex Steud.
• Carex aristata Honck.
• Carex curvula Lam.
• Carex pilulifera Geners. ex Boott
• Carex praeceps Borkh. ex Rchb.
• Carex praecox var. alata Zlinska
• Carex praecox f. gracillima (Asch.) Soó
• Carex praecox f. nana (Zapal.) Soó
• Carex praecox f. petermannii Soó
• Carex praecox f. podolica (Zapal.) Soó
• Carex princeps Kunth
• Carex pseudopraecox Schur
• Carex schreberi Willd.
• Carex schreberi Schrank
• Carex sicyocarpa Lebel
• Carex stolonifera Ehrh.
• Carex tenella Thuill.
• Carex velenovskyi Domin
• Carex verna Torr. ex Kunth
• Carex weiheana Boeckeler ex Kunth
• Caricina multicaulis St.-Lag.
• Neilreichia umbrosa Kotula
• Trasus praecox (Schreb.) Gray
• Vignea curvula Opiz
• Vignea praecox (Schreb.) Soják
• Vignea schreberi Rchb.

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Carex praecox, the spring sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Europe, western Asia, and Mongolia.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:324495-2 |title=Carex praecox Schreb. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=1 January 2021 }}{{cite web |title=Carex praecox spring sedge |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/157441/i-Carex-praecox-i/Details |publisher=The Royal Horticultural Society |accessdate=1 January 2021 }} Its diploid chromosome number is 2n=58, with some uncertainty.{{cite journal |last1=Rotreklová |first1=Olga |last2=Bureš |first2=Petr |last3=Řepka |first3=Radomír |last4=Grulich |first4=Vít |last5=Šmarda |first5=Petr |last6=Hralová |first6=Ivana |last7=Zedek |first7=František |last8=Koutecký |first8=Tomáš |date=2011 |title=Chromosome numbers of Carex |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265414867 |journal=Preslia |volume=83 |issue=1 |pages=25–58 |access-date=1 January 2021 }}