| Eriophorum callitrix Cham. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Densely tufted; culms 10-15(—20) cm tall, thick, stiff, curved; cauline sheath - at lower half of culm or close to its base, somewhat inflated; basal leaves numerous, coarse, stiff; involucral scale ovate, acute; scales lanceolate, dark, translucent on margin and tip; anthers 0.7-1 mm long, bristles shiny white. | ||
| Ecology | Peaty soil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | In var. moravium Raymond (var. pallidus Hult.), the scales are yellow. |
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.