| Carex obtusata Lilj. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Culms in rows from long, creeping, purplish-black rhizome; leafy shoots with purplish-black sheaths; spike with pistillate flowers at base, staminate flowers at tip; scales persistent, light brown with pale midvein, acute; perigynia ovate, shiny, brown, darker at tip, with glabrous, slightly bidentate, hyaline-tipped beak; 3 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy soil, dry ridges. |
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.