| Carex petasata Dew. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose; culms with old leaves at base; leaves light green, 2-3 mm broad; spikes in head 1-1.5 cm long, with few staminate flowers at base and numerous pistillate flowers at tip; bracts scalelike, the lowest slightly prolonged; scales acute, light reddish-brown, with hyaline margins nearly covering perigynia; perigynia ovate-lanceolate, wing-margined, serrulate, striate, with bidentate beak 2 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, woods. Described from the Rocky Mountains. |
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.