| Carex media R. Br. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex angarae Steud., Carex alpina var. inferalpina Wahlenb., Carex norvegica subsp. inferalpina (Wahlenb.) Hult. | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose; culms with dark, purplish-red sheaths at base, leaves in lower third; leaves light green, soft; spikes 3—4 of equal size, short, compressed; scales narrowly ovate, shorter than perigynia; perigynia bluish-green when young, later olive-brown, lighter-colored than scales, ellipsoid, with short beak. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places in lowland and subalpine zones. Described from northwest Canada, 54-64° N. |
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.