| Carex filifolia Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Densely tufted, with numerous, conspicuous, leaf-bearing, striate, yellowish- brown-to-brown sheaths at base; culms often curved; leaves filiform, acute; grayish- green; spike solitary, with staminate flowers at top, pistillate at base, bractless; scales broadly ovate, or obovate, reddish-brown, with broad, hyaline margin or sometimes entirely hyaline; perigynia somewhat puberulent at top, with short beak, about 0.4 mm long; 3 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Dry ridges up to about 1,500 meters. Described from “Hills of Missouri River.” |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.