| Carex maritima Gunn. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex incurva Lightf., Carex incurvaeformis Mack. | ||
| Description | Culms grayish-green, often curved, in row from creeping rhizome; leaves more or less curved, longer than culm; staminate flowers at tip of spike, pistillate flowers at base; scales light brown to brown; perigynia ovoid, dark, nearly nerveless, taper- ing into scabrous beak. | ||
| Ecology | Shores, sandy soil; in the St. Elias Range, sterile specimens reach probably to 2,800 meters. Described from the coast of Norway. |
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.