| Carex atrofasca Schkuhr | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex ustulata Wahlenb. | ||
| Description | Caespitose; culms stiff, smooth; leaves 3—4 mm wide, grayish-green, with light- brown sheaths; lowest bract short, setaceous, with brown sheath; apical spike stami- nate, obovate, the lateral 2-3 pistillate, ovate, on slender pedicels, drooping in age; scales ovate, acuminate, dark; perigynia broader than scales, thin, nerveless, sca- brous in margin, tapering into long, bidentate, distinctly hyaline-margined beak. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, in mountains to at least 1,000 meters, preferably on calcareous soil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A very tall plant (up to 60 cm) has been called var. major (Boeck.) Raymond (C. ustulata var. major Boeck.). |
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.