| Carex atrata L. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with short runners covered with purplish-brown sheaths; culms longer than leaves; leaves 3-5 mm broad; spikes 3-5, the apical with pistillate flowers above, the lateral pistillate, the lower long-peduncled; lowest bract foliaceous, ex- tending beyond inflorescence; scales somewhat acute, black, as long as perigynia or slightly shorter; perigynia light-colored, papillose, with short, slightly emarginate, purplish beak; stigmas 3. | ||
| Ecology | Mountain meadows. Described from European Alps. Circumpolar map gives range of C. atrata in a broad sense. |
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.