| Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Loosely tufted, stoloniferous; sheaths shiny reddish-brown to wine-red; culm sharply angled, rough at summit; leaves 1-2 mm broad, bluish-green, long; spikes 3—4, short, sessile or short-peduncled, the terminal pistillate above, staminate at base, clublike; pistillate scales purplish-black, lanceolate, acuminate or usually awned, equaling or longer than perigynia; perigynia indistinctly nerved, nearly beakless, with wide opening. | ||
| Ecology | Swamps and bogs. Described from Sweden. |
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.