| Carex adeldostoma Krecz. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex morriseyi Pors., Carex buxbaumii subsp. alpina (Hartm.) Liro, Carex buxbaumii var. alpina Hartm. | ||
| Description | Plant grayish-green, with thin, subterranean runners; culm scabrous, with pur- plish, bladeless sheaths at base; leaves 2-3 mm wide, shorter than culm; spikes 3—4, sessile, the lower remote, the apical staminate, with pistillate flowers above, or entirely staminate, the lateral pistillate; scales ovate, acute, dark brown with green midvein, shorter than perigynia, or as long; perigynia grayish-green, elliptical, glabrous in margin, indistinctly nerved. | ||
| 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.