| Name | Carex flava Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| Contains | Carex flava var. alpina Kneucker Carex flava var. fertilis Peck Carex flava var. gaspensis Fernald Carex flava var. rectirostra Gaudin Carex flava f. umbrosa Kneucker |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:299765-1 |
| Holdings | 260 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex flava Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (42), 1955 (6), 1963 (1), 1979 (1), 1985 (207), 1990 (1), 2017 (1), 2022 (1) |