title: Carex sect. Ovales
text: # Carex sect. Ovales
  
  Carex sect. Ovales is a section of the genus Carex, containing around 85 species of sedge. It is the most diverse section of the genus in North America, containing 72 species:
  
  * Carex abrupta
  * Carex adusta
  * Carex alata
  * Carex albolutescens
  * Carex amplectens
  * Carex arapahoensis
  * Carex argyrantha
  * Carex athrostachya
  * Carex bebbii
  * Carex bicknellii
  * Carex brevior
  * Carex constanceana
  * Carex crawfordii
  * Carex cristatella
  * Carex cumulata
  * Carex davyi
  * Carex ebenea
  * Carex egglestonii
  * Carex festucacea
  * Carex feta
  * Carex foenea
  * Carex fracta
  * Carex gracilior
  * Carex harfordii
  * Carex haydeniana
  * Carex hormathodes
  * Carex hyalina
  * Carex illota
  * Carex integra
  * Carex leporina
  * Carex leporinella
  * Carex longii
  * Carex macloviana
  * Carex mariposana
  * Carex merritt-fernaldii
  * Carex microptera
  * Carex missouriensis
  * Carex molesta
  * Carex molestiformis
  * Carex multicostata
  * Carex muskingumensis
  * Carex normalis
  * Carex opaca
  * Carex oronensis
  * Carex ovalis, (nom. illeg. synonym for C. leporina L. and C. scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.)
  * Carex ozarkana
  * Carex pachystachya
  * Carex petasata
  * Carex phaeocephala
  * Carex praticola
  * Carex preslii
  * Carex projecta
  * Carex proposita
  * Carex reniformis
  * Carex scoparia
  * Carex shinnersii
  * Carex silicea
  * Carex specifica
  * Carex stenoptila
  * Carex straminea
  * Carex straminiformis
  * Carex subbracteata
  * Carex suberecta
  * Carex subfusca
  * Carex tahoensis
  * Carex tenera
  * Carex tetrastachya
  * Carex tincta
  * Carex tribuloides
  * Carex unilateralis
  * Carex vexans
  * Carex wootonii
  * Carex xerantica
  