''Carex canescens'' L. (syn. ''C. cinerea'' Poll.; ''C. curta'' Gooden.) is a perennial species of plants in the family

Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' w ...

growing in damp forests and

wetlands A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or saturated by water, either permanently (for years or decades) or seasonally (for weeks or months). Flooding results in oxygen-free (anoxic) processes prevailing, especially in the soils. The ...

. It is widespread across much of Europe, Asia,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, New Guinea,

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

, Greenland and southern South America.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Flora Italiana
/ref> ;Subspecies *''Carex canescens'' subsp. ''canescens'' – Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, New Guinea *''Carex canescens'' subsp. ''disjuncta'' (Fernald) Toivonen – eastern Canada, eastern United States *''Carex canescens'' var. ''robustior'' Blytt ex Andersson – Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands

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Jepson Manual treatment - ''CAREX canescens''
* {{Taxonbar, from=Q157766 canescens Flora of North America Flora of South America Flora of Europe Flora of Asia Flora of Australia Flora of New Guinea Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Flora of Greenland