| Name | Carex canescens var. sphaerostachya Tuckerman |
| Authorship | Tuckerman |
| Rank | Variety |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex canescens Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:45925-2 |
| Citation | 1843 Enum. Meth. Caric. 19 |
| Holdings | 3 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex canescens var. sphaerostachya Tuckerman |
| Identification made in | [no date] (3) |