Carex atrostachya Olney
 
FamilyCyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae
DescriptionCaespitose; culms with old leaves at base; leaves 2-3 mm broad, flat; inflores- cence capitate, spikes with staminate flowers at base, pistillate flowers at tip, the lowest subtended by a foliaceous bract; pistillate scales somewhat shorter and nar- rower than perigynia; perigynia lanceolate-ovate, with serrulate margin, tapering into somewhat flattened beak.
EcologyDry, grassy meadows.
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.