| Carex podocarpa C. B. Clarke | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex behringensis C. B. Clarke., Carex montanensis Bailey | ||
| Description | Plant yellowish-green with long, slender, brown, scaly, fibrillose rootstock; culms stout, with scalelike leaves at base, longer above; leaves 3—-4 mm broad, abruptly pointed; spikes 3—4, the apical 1-2 staminate, the lateral pistillate, on long, slender, capillary peduncles, in mature specimens drooping; lower bracts foliaceous, shorter than inflorescence; scales acute, purplish-black, as long as or slightly shorter than perigynia; perigynia elliptic, blackish-tinged, nerveless, abruptly contracted into short, mostly bidentulate beak; stigmas 3. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, moist places. Described from northwest Canada 64-69°N. |
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.