| Carex sitchensis Prescott | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Rhizome very coarse, short, scaly, brown or purplish; culms acutely triangular, smooth; leaves 4-8 mm wide; sheaths with colored mouth; staminate spikes 2-5, slender, erect, pistillate strongly separate, more or less drooping, on long, slender peduncles; bracts leaflike, extending beyond spikes; scales brownish, with pale center, acute in age, distinctly hyaline-tipped; perigynia oval, indistinctly nerved, with short beak; 2 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Swamps. |
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.