| Carex aquatilis Wahlenb. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Rhizome coarse, scaly, brown or reddish-brown, cordlike; culms thick, smooth, rounded; leaves 45 mm wide, as long as culm, or somewhat shorter; spikes stiff, erect, the upper sessile, the lower short—peduncled the apical clublike, long, stami- nate, the lateral plstlllate often staminate at tip; bracts leaflike, extendlng beyond spikes; scales brown or blackish with pale midvein; perigynia ]ight-colored, nerve- less, with minute, entire beak; 2 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Shallow water, marshes, along rivers. Described from Lapland. |
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.