| Kobresia sibirica Turcz. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Kobresia schoenoides, Kobresia hyperborea var. lepagei Duman, Kobresia arctica Pors., Kobresia hyperborea var. alaskana Duman, Kobresia macrocarpa Clokey | ||
| Description | Densely tufted; culms up to 35 cm tall, stiff, smooth, surrounded by dark-brown, leaf-bearing sheaths, bladeless in age; leaves canaliculate, slightly scabrous in mar- gin; spikes ovate or ellipsoid, 1-1.8 cm long, with up to 20 spikelets, bearing 2-3 pistillate flowers and 1 staminate flower; scales dark chestnut-brown with paler center; stigmas 3, varying with lateral spikelets each bearing 2-3 sterile scales (K. hyperborea var. alaskana Duman), or with narrower lateral spikelets each bearing only 1 sterile scale (K. hyperborea var. Lepagei Duman). | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. |
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.