| Carex albo-nigra Mack. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose; culms stiff, with conspicuous old leaves at base; blades light green, 2.5-5 mm broad; spikes usually 3, the apical with pistillate flowers above, the lateral pistillate; lowest bract shorter than inflorescence; scales obtuse or somewhat acute, with white-hyaline margins at tip; perigynia obovate, purplish-black, granu- lar, with short, somewhat bidentate beak, 0.5 mm long; 3 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Mountainsides. |
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.