| Carex scirpoidea Michx. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex stenochlaena Holm. | ||
| Description | Culms in dense rows from stout, dark-brown, scaly rhizome; leaves flat, very acute, scabrous, about 3 mm broad; staminate spikes broad, with light-brown scales in middle, about 2.5-3 mm long; anthers conspicuous during flowering time; pistil- late spikes cylindrical, with oblong-ovate, purplish-brown or darker, scarious-mar- gined, ciliate scales, and very hairy, fusiform to obovate perigynia, with short beak; 3 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, heaths, wet places; common in mountains, to at least 2,000 meters. Described from Hudson Bay. |
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.