| Name | Carex prairea Dewey |
| Authorship | Dewey |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1062920-2 |
| Citation | 1845 Class-book Bot. (ed. 1) 414 |
| Holdings | 154 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex prairea Dewey |
| Identification made in | [no date] (153), 1989 (1) |