| Carex kelloggii W. Boott | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex hindsii Clarke, Carex aleutica Akiyama. | ||
| Description | Caespitose; culms slender, sharply triangular, with brown, bladeless sheaths and withered leaves at base; leaves 2-3 mm broad; apical spike staminate, dark brown, lateral pistillate, sessile, cylindrical; lowest bract leaflike, longer than inflorescence; scales obtuse or somewhat acute, black with green midrib, shorter and narrower than perigynia; perigynia green, more or less nerved, stipitate, tapering to short beak or more abruptly contracted to beak; 2 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. |
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.