| Carex peckii Howe | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Pale green, loosely caespitose; culms greatly exceeding leaves; leaves soft, 1.5- 2 mm wide; bract narrow or lacking; spikes 2—4, the apical small, sessile, staminate, the lateral pistillate, globose; scales brownish, with broad hyaline margins; peri- gynia much longer than scales, ellipsoid to fusiform, short-hirsute, with slender, bidentate, hyaline-margined beak. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes, woods. Described from New York State. |
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.