| Scirpus americanus Pers. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Culms triangular, with concave sides, from stout, elongate, horizontal rhizome; basal leaves linear, the upper keeled, about 2 mm broad; involucral bract erect, acute; spikelets oblong or ovoid, fulvous to brown, cleft at apex, short-awned. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places at Circle Hot Spring. |
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.