| Name | Carex aurea Nuttall |
| Authorship | Nuttall |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| Contains | Carex aurea var. androgyna Olney |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298721-1 |
| Citation | 1818 Gen. N. Amer. Pl. [Nuttall] 2: 205 |
| Holdings | 164 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex aurea Nuttall |
| Identification made in | [no date] (132), 1975 (2), 2003 (29), 2018 (1) |