| Carex parryana Dew. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Stoloniferous, with long, horizontal, scaly runners; culm stiff, with numerous basal leaves; leaves stiff, light green, 2-3 mm wide, much shorter than culm; spikes 3-5, erect, the terminal with pistillate flowers above, the lateral pistillate, the upper sessile, the lower short-peduncled; lowest bract shorter than head, with very short sheath; scales suborbicular, dark brown with green midvein, hyaline-margined, nearly concealing perigynia; perigynia obovate, nerveless, very short-beaked; 3 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.