| Carex pluriflora Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex limosa var. stygia Vasey., Carex rariflora subsp. stygia Hult., Carex stygia | ||
| Description | Plant with long, scaly, purplish-black rhizome and yellowish, tomentose roots; culm triangular; leaves about as long as culm, about 2 mm broad, flat, grayish- green; bracts short, setaceous, with short sheath; spikes 23, the terminal staminate, long-peduncled, the lateral pistillate, drooping, on capillary peduncles, 10-20- flowered; scales broadly ovate, acute or cuspidate, black, with somewhat paler median nerve; perigynia ovate to ovate-lanceolate, slightly shorter than scales, beak- less, in age blackish-brown. | ||
| Ecology | Bogs, margins of ponds along coast. |
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.