| Carex petricosa Dew. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex franklinii var. nicholsonis Boiv. | ||
| Description | Plant with horizontal stolons; culm smooth, with dried-up leaves at base; leaf blades light green, stiff, flat, 2-2.5 mm wide; lowest bract foliaceous, with sheath 1 cm long; terminal spike short-peduncled, with staminate flowers at tip, the lateral 9-3 pistillate, erect, the lower long-peduncled; scales oblong-obovate, not awned, purplish-black with lighter center and hyaline apex, slightly ciliate; perigynia lanceolate, ciliate in margin, darker above, finely nerved, beakless; white-hyaline and slightly bidentulate at apex. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes in the mountains. Described from the Rocky Mountains (Drummond). |
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.