| Carex flava L. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, light green; culms firm, tall, acutely triangular, glabrous; leaves flat, shorter than culm; lowest bract foliaceous, much longer than inflorescence; apical spike staminate, short-peduncled, the lateral pistillate, aggregated, subglobose; scales yellowish-brown with green midvein, lanceolate, acute; perigynia yellowish- green, shiny, with coarse nerves, 5-6 mm long, with curved, bidentate beak of the same length as the body or slightly shorter, the lowest reflexed. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, preferably on calcareous soil. Described from Europe. |
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.