| Carex chordorrhiza Ehrh. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Hollow culms, curved at base and straight at top, from slender, branching rhizome; leaves short, straight, thick; spikes densely compressed, forming head; staminate flowers at tip of spike, pistillate flowers at base; scales light brown; perigynia ovoid to subglobose, strongly nerved, with short, glabrous beak. | ||
| Ecology | Bogs, lake margins; quagmires in lowlands, ascending to at least 1,200 meters in valleys. Described from Sweden. |
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.