| Eriophorum angustifolium subsp. subarcticum (Vassiljev) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Eriophorum angustifolium var. majus K. F. Schultz., Eriophorum subarcticum Vassiljev | ||
| Description | Culms from creeping rhizome; leaves dark green, triangular, channeled toward tip, broad; inflorescence with 2-3 long, involucral leaves; spikelets on flattened peduncles; anthers 2.5-3 mm long; bristles white, exceptionally pinkish (var. coloratum Hult.). | ||
| Ecology | Wet bogs and shores. The lower part of the stem is sometimes eaten by natives, raw or mixed with seal oil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. giganteus Hult. is an extremely coarse type, up to 1 meter tall, with leaves up to 8 mm broad, occurring especially on the west coast of Kenai Peninsula. The hybrid E. angustifolium X Scheuchzeri has been called E. Rousseauianum Ray- mond; the hybrid E. angustifolium var. majus X Chamissonis has been called E. beringianum Raymond. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. angustifolium, |
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.