Fr: carex écailleux, carex jaune à longues tiges, laîche a beaux fruits
Provincial Status: N
Range: Boreal Amphi-Atlantic (Gulf of St. Lawrence area, Québec, NB, NS, insular Nfld., and Europe; N to sw/w/nw/ne/eNfld.; calc.
[=Carex flava L. forma latifolia Maire & Weiller]
[=Carex flava L. subsp. brachyrrhyncha Čelak.]
[=Carex flava L. subsp. lepidocarpa (Tausch) Andersson]
[=Carex flava L. subsp. lepidocarpa (Tausch) Nyman 1882, nom. illeg. isonym., non (Tausch) Andersson 1849]
[=Carex flava L. var elatior Schltdl.]
[=Carex flava L. var. laevigata Peterm.]
[=Carex flava L. var. lepidocarpa (Tausch) Godr.]
[=Carex flava L. var. minor Peterm. 1844, nom. illeg. hom., non Mérat. 1821]
[=Carex flava L. var. nelmesiana (Raymond) B.Boivin]
[=Carex flava L. var. polystachya Gaudin]
[=Carex lepidocarpa Tausch var. nelmesiana Raymond]
[=Carex lepidocarpa Tausch var. sphaerostachys Neuman]
[=Carex oederi Retz. var. elatior Gaudin]
[=Carex oederi Retz. var. major Boeckeler]
[=Carex pyriformis Taysch ex F.W.Schultz]
[=Carex viridula Michx. subsp. brachyrrhyncha (Čelak.) B.Schmid]
[=Carex viridula Michx. var. elatior (Schltdl.) Crins]
[=Carex viridula Michx. var. lepidocarpa (Tausch) B.Schmid]
[Following the European treatment of this amphi-Atlantic disjunct in Plants of the World Online (POWO) and the New Flora of the British Isles, 3rd edition (Clive Stace 2010), Carex viridula Michx. var. elatior (Schltdl.) Crins (1989) is again being treated as Carex lepidocarpa Tausch (1834). The typical variety, Carex lepidocarpa Tausch var. lepidocarpa, is the variety found in eastern Canada, specifically Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and insular Newfoundland.]