| Carex dioica subsp. gynocrates (Wormsk.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex alaskana Boeck., Carex gynocrates Wormsk. | ||
| Description | Staminate and pistillate spikes usually on separate plants; culms smooth, often curved, from slender, yellowish-brown rhizome with capillary runners; leaves fili- form, canaliculate; staminate spike linear to lanceolate-linear; pistillate spike ellip- tic or broadly cylindrical, bractless; perigynia oblong-ovate, with short, somewhat serrulated beak, at first erect, in age spreading or reflexed. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, marshes. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. didica. |
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.