| Carex lasiocarpa subsp. americana (Fern.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex lasiocarpa var. americana Fern. | ||
| Description | Grayish-green, with thick, horizontal rhizomes; culms slender, obtusely angled, smooth, with reddish-brown sheaths at base; leaf blades long, filiform, convolute, 1-2 mm broad, about as long as culms; lowest bract longer than inflorescence, short-sheathed or sheathless; upper 1-3 spikes staminate, linear, the lower 2-3 pistillate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, sessile or short-peduncled, ascending; scales ovate to lanceolate, 3-nerved, cuspidate or awn-tipped; perigynia ovate, covered with thick, grayish-brown pubescence, tapering into short, sharply bidentate beak with teeth about 0.2—0.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Shallow water, bogs. C. lasiocarpa described from Germany, subsp. americana from Argyl, Nova Scotia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. lasiocarpa, dotted line that of subsp. occtltans (Franch.) Hult. (C. filiformis var. occultans Franch.). |
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.