| Carex rariflora (Wahlenb.) J. E. Sm. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex limosa var. rariflora Wahlenb. | ||
| Description | Plant with long, dark brown, scaly rhizomes and rust-colored tomentum on roots; culms obtusely triangular, smooth; leaves about 2 mm wide; bracts with short, dark, sheaths and slender blades; terminal spike staminate, the lateral 2-3 pistil- late, few-flowered, the lowest long-peduncled, drooping; scales purplish-black, broadly ovate, obtuse or mucronate, shorter but at base broader than the light- colored perigynia; perigynia elliptic, obscurely nerved, with inconspicuous beak. | ||
| Ecology | Bogs, margins of ponds. |
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.