| Carex lapponica Lang | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex canescens var. subloliacea Laest. | ||
| Description | Similar to C. canescens, but less distinctly caespitose; culms gracile, leaves nar- row, about 1 mm broad; spikes globose, few-flowered, widely separated, lowest spikes with stiff, setaceous bract; perigynia with short but distinct, smooth beak. | ||
| Ecology | Wet, grassy places. Total range very incompletely known, probably throughout northern parts of North America. |
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.