| Name | Carex sterilis Schkuhr ex Willdenow |
| Authorship | Schkuhr ex Willdenow |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus |
| Contains | Carex sterilis var. excelsior L. H. Bailey |
| Citation | 1805 Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willd.]. 208 |
| Holdings | 128 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex sterilis Schkuhr ex Willdenow |
| Identification made in | [no date] (125), 1961 (1), 1978 (1), 1979 (1) |