| Carex nardina E. Fries | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex hepburnii Boott. | ||
| Description | Densely tufted; culms often arcuate, shorter or somewhat longer than leaves; basal sheaths light brown; leaves setaceous, usually curved; spike ovate, dark brown; perigynia stipitate, light brown, with short, ciliate-to-scabrous, dark-brown, biden- tate beak; 2 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Dry ground in the mountains, in the St. Elias Range to at least 2,600 meters. |
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.