Carex picta Steud.

Culms 12–35 cm. Proximal leaf blades green, 25–40 cm × 2–4.5 mm, smooth abaxially, scabrid adaxially. Inflorescences with staminate and pistillate flowers on different plants; spike 1, unisexual; pistillate spikes 30–80 × 2.5–6 mm; staminate spikes 20–50 × 4–6 mm. Pistillate scales obovate-oblong, 5.5–6.5 × 2.3–2.8 mm, proximal ones cuspidate, distal ones acuminate, awned. Staminate scales obovate-oblong, 6–7 × 1.2–3 mm, apex acuminate to cuspidate. Perigynia yellow-green, 3.5–5.5 × 1.3–1.7 mm, apex acute, sparsely pubescent towards black apex, beakless.

Ala., Ind., Ky., La., Miss., Tenn.

Fruiting spring.

Forests and forest openings; 100–500m.

Carex picta Steud. Syn. Cyp. 184. 1855
Carex BooUiana Benth.; Boott, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 112. 1845. (Type from New Orleans, Louisiana.) Not C. BooWJana H. & A. 1841.
Rootstocks stout, woody, short-creeping, the culms lateral, 1-2.5 dm. high, slender, erect, sharply triangular, strongly exceeded by the long basal leaves, more or less roughened on the angles, strongly purplish and usually fibrillose at base; culm-leaves numerous, the developed ones clustered near the base, their blades deep-green, thick, usually 2.5-4 dm. long, 2-4.5 mm. wide, very rough towards the apex, the culm-leaves gradually reduced upwards, the upper consisting of bladeless sheaths 1-3 cm. long, the sheaths loose, strongly tinged with purplishred, obliquely cut at mouth, the ligule very short; sterile shoots numerous, erect, their leaves long-persistent, the lowest bladeless; culms dioecious, the spike solitary, bractless, staminate or pistillate, the lowest scale amplectant; staminate spike linear, 2-5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, many-flowered, the scales obovate-oblong, dark-reddish-purple above, with prominent white or straw-colored midrib and minutely hyaline margins, abruptly cuspidate to obtuse; pistillate spike linear-clavate, 4-6 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, closely flowered, with numerous appressedascending perigynia, the scales obovate-oblong, short-ciliate, reddish-purple with strawcolored midrib and narrowly hyaline margins, varying from obtuse (the lower) to mucronate or awned (the upper), wider and longer than and concealing the perigynia; perigynia narrowly oblong-obovoid, triangular, 4-5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, many-nerved, yellowish-green, sparsely short-pubescent above, ciliate on the margins, submembranaceous, strongly stipitate, tapering at base, short-tapering to a pointed but beakless, purplish, slightly bidentulate apex, the orifice ciliate, hyaline; achenes oblong-obovoid, triangular with concave sides, noticeably short-stipitate, strongly apiculate, blackish, closely enveloped, 3.5 mm. long, 1.25 mm. wide; style short, jointed with achene, deciduous, exserted; stigmas three, very elongate, yellowishbrown.
Type locality: "Drummond (sine nr.) Louisiana, N. Orleans." {Carex BooUiana Benth. is based on the same collection, i. e., Drummond 560.)
Distribution: Woods, Central Indiana (Brown, Morgan, Monroe, Lawrence, and Jackson Counties); northwestern Alabama; Louisiana (near New Orleans). (Specimens examined from Indiana, Alabama, Louisiana.)

Carex picta is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to south western parts of North America.

Carex picta adalah spesies tumbuhan seperti rumput yang tergolong ke dalam famili Cyperaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Poales. Spesies Carex picta sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Carex. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Steud..

Carex picta là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cói. Loài này được Steud. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1855.