| Carex macrochaeta C. A. Mey. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose, with short runners; culm longer than leaves, nearly glabrous, with purplish-brown, bladeless sheaths disintegrating into shreds at base; leaf blades light green, 1-3 mm wide; spikes 3—4, oblong, the apical staminate, the lateral pis- tillate (rarely staminate above) on thin, glabrous peduncles; scales lanceolate, emarginate, with light-colored midvein, excurrent into yellowish awn up to 1 cm long; perigynia elliptic-lanceolate, 5-7-nerved, tapering into glabrous beak; stigmas 3 (rarely 2). | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, very common along coast, rare inland. Described from Unalaska. |
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.