Carex praegracilis W. Boott
 
FamilyCyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae
DescriptionCulms scabrous, acutely angled, from elongate, forking, dark-colored rhizomes; leaves 1.5-3 mm broad in scattered tufts; head cylindrical, interrupted; lowest bract with short projection; spikes with staminate flowers at tip, pistillate flowers at base; perigynia ovate, slightly nerved, with serrulate beak half as long as body.
EcologyOpen, grassy ground.
Hultén's Flora About

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.