| Carex bigelowii Torr. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex hyperborea Drej., Carex ensifolia Turcz., Carex bigelowii subsp. hyperborea (Drej.) Bocher., Carex rigida Good., Carex rigidioides Gorodk., Carex consimilis Holm | ||
| Description | Stout runners, with shiny, dark-reddish-brown sheaths; culms stiff, sharply tri- angular, with dried-up leaves at base; leaves stiff, flat, light green, 3—4 mm wide; terminal spike staminate, the lateral thick, pistillate, the upper approximate; lower bract shorter than inflorescence, with black auricles at base; scales black, with lighter midvein; perigynia flat or slightly biconvex, nerveless, green or purplish-black- spotted, with short beak; 2 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places, solifluction soil, mostly in mountains. Circumpolar map gives range of entire, very complicated, and still unclear complex. |
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.