| Carex glacialis Mack. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex pedata Wahlenb. | ||
| Description | Forming small tufts with capillary, light-green leaves; culms longer than leaves, stiff, with reddish-brown sheaths at base (hidden in tuft); bracts short, subulate; terminal spike staminate, sessile, the lateral 1-3, very small, with 1-4 perigynia; scales inconspicuous, exceeded by perigynia, broadly ovate, purplish-black, with hyaline margins; perigynia obovate to nearly spherical, glabrous, nerveless, darker above, abruptly contracted into cylindrical hyaline-tipped beak 0.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, calcareous soil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Easily presumed to have but one spike, because of its ag- gregate spikes; superficially similar to C. rupestris (sp. no. 8, above). On circum- polar map, range of C. terrae-novae Fern. is included. |
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.