| Carex capitata Soland. in L. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Grayish-green, densely tufted; basal sheaths purplish-red; culm as long as in- volute leaves, or considerably longer; spike with a few staminate flowers at top; scales light brown, sometimes darker, shorter than smooth, sessile, ovate, short- beaked perigynia. | ||
| Ecology | Bogs and marshes, poplar forests from lowlands to at least 1,000 meters. De- scribed from northern Scandinavia. |
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.