| Carex glareosa Wahlenb. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex glareosa var. amphigena Fern., Carex marina Dew. | ||
| Description | Grayish-green, loosely tufted; leaves 0.75-1.5 mm broad, shorter than culm; spikes 2-3, terminal spikes with staminate flowers at base, lower spikes with pistil- late flowers; bracts scalelike; scales shorter than perigynia, obtuse, brown, with hyaline margin; perigynia oblong, elliptic to lanceolate, distinctly nerved, stipitate, with minute beak; 2 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Brackish marshes. Described from northern Scandinavia. |
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.