| Carex ursina Dew. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Densely tufted, with glabrous culms, usually somewhat shorter than leaves; leaves canaliculate or involute, scabrous in margin; spikes obovate or spherical, with few pistillate flowers at base; scales ovate, obtuse, dark brown with lighter midvein, shorter than ovate, nearly beakless perigynia. | ||
| Ecology | Grassy places near salt or brackish water. Described from arctic America. |
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.