| Carex laxa Wahlenb. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Bluish-green, with thin subterranean runners; roots lacking rust-colored tomen- tum; culms thin, slack; leaves 1-2 mm broad, shorter than culm; lower bract with sheath 1-2 cm long and blade 1-3 cm long; apical spike staminate, long-peduncled, the lateral 1-2 pistillate, on long, thin, glabrous peduncles; scales broad, light brown with greenish midvein; perigynia grayish-green, elliptical to lanceolate, with short beak, slightly longer than scales. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, mostly in woods. |
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.