| Name | Carex flava Linnaeus | 
| Authorship | Linnaeus | 
| Rank | Species | 
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg | 
| Placed in | Carex Linnaeus | 
| Contains | Carex flava var. alpina Kneucker Carex flava var. fertilis Peck Carex flava var. gaspensis Fernald Carex flava var. rectirostra Gaudin Carex flava f. umbrosa Kneucker | 
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:299765-1 | 
| Holdings | 260 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Carex flava Linnaeus | 
| Identification made in | [no date] (42), 1955 (6), 1963 (1), 1979 (1), 1985 (207), 1990 (1), 2017 (1), 2022 (1) | 
