| Carex canescens L. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, grayish-green; culms scabrous above; leaves flat, about 2.5 mm broad; spikes more or less distant, subtended by stiff, short bracts; scales light-colored, with green central nerve shorter than perigynia; perigynia yellowish-green, ovate, slightly scabrous toward tip, with short beak. | ||
| Ecology | Bogs, swamps. Described from northern Europe. |
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.