| Name | Carex tenera Dewey |
| Authorship | Dewey |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| Contains | Carex tenera var. echinodes (Fernald) Wiegand Carex tenera var. richii Fernald Carex tenera var. suberecta Olney Carex tenera var. tenera |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:302580-1 |
| Citation | 1824 Amer. J. Sci. Arts 8: 97 |
| Holdings | 273 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex tenera Dewey |
| Identification made in | [no date] (265), 2007 (2), 2011 (1), 2012 (4), 2017 (1) |