| Carex bicolor All. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Rhizome with short runners; culms flexuous, curving; spikes lying on ground when ripe; leaves flat, blue-green, shorter than culm; spikes crowded on lower part, the terminal pistillate above, the others pistillate; bract of lowest spike shorter than inflorescence, with sheath 2-4 mm long, with black or dark-brown auricles at mouth; scales purplish-black with green midrib; perigynia bluish-white, beakless; 2 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Wet, gravelly places in mountains. |
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.