| Carex brunnescens subsp. alaskana Kalela | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Densely tufted, grayish-green when young; culm 20-40 cm tall, erect, stiff; leaves short and stiff, 1.5-2 mm wide; spikes rounded to oval, the uppermost with numer- ous staminate flowers at base, the lower somewhat removed; scales ovate, obtuse to somewhat acute, broadly scarious-margined, olivaceous, later reddish-brown with green center; perigynia 2-2.5 mm long, ovate to oblong, thin-walled, often bursting in age, tapering into conical beak, which is somewhat scabrous in margin. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, dry, stony slopes, in mountains to at least 1,500 meters. C. brun- nescens described from Switzerland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map gives range of C. brunnescens in a broad sense. |
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.