| Taxon | Carex leporina |
| group | Monocots |
| Family | Cyperaceae |
| Family common name(s) | sedge; sedges; bulrush |
| Genus common name(s) | carex; sedge; sedge-grass; sedge grass; sedgegrass; shere-grass; shere grass |
| Species common name(s) | leporine sedge; oval hare sedge; oval-bract sedge; ovalbract sedge; egg-bract sedge; eggbract sedge |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | Tracy's sedge [Carex tracyi]; Tracy sedge [Carex tracyi] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | oval sedge, hare sedge are applied to multiple Carex taxa; egg sedge is applied to multiple Cyperaceae taxa; sword-grass, sword grass, sedge grass are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended (pejorative or derogatory): nigger-wool, nigger wool, niggerwool |
| Notes | Tracy is a proper name, so upper case preferable; Tracys is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Carex ovalis Gooden; Carex tracyi Mack. |
