| Carex eburnea Boott | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with short stolons; culms capillary, smooth; leaves involute-filiform, shorter than culm; lowest bract with tubular sheath; inflorescence corymbose; apical spike staminate, lateral 2—4 pistillate, on slender, erect peduncles; scales whitish to pale brown, thin, shorter than perigynia, falling off in age; perigynia elliptical, olivaceous to blackish, with short beak longer than scales; base of style bulbous, thickened. | ||
| Ecology | Dry sand or rocky places, preferably on calcareous soil. Described from western Canada. |
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.