Scirpus subterminalis Torr.
 
FamilyCyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae
DescriptionSubmerged or terrestrial; culm from slender rhizome with tuber-bearing stolons; leaves of submerged plant long, capillary; leaves of terrestrial plant short or missing; involucre a single filiform leaf with excurrent median nerve; achenes lustrous, trigo- nous-obovoid, abruptly short-beaked; bristles shorter than achenes.
EcologyPonds, quagmires.
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.