| Carex vaginata Tausch | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex algida Turcz., Carex quasivaginata Clarke, Carex altocaulis (Dew.) Britt., Carex vaginata var. altocaulis Dew., Carex saltuensis Bailey, Carex sparsiflora Steud. | ||
| Description | Plant with long, slender, grayish-brown, scaly stolons; culms smooth; leaves much shorter than culms, flat, yellowish-green; lowest bract short, with long, somewhat inflated, sheath; apical spike staminate, club-shaped, light brown, long-peduncled, the lateral 1-3 pistillate, peduncled, erect; scales grayish-brown, acute, shorter than perigynia; perigynia ovate, light-colored, nerveless, with slender, cylindrical, biden- tate beak, hyaline at tip. | ||
| Ecology | Mossy woods, bogs, wet places, in mountains to at least 700 meters. |
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.