| Carex atherodes Spreng. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex orthostachys C. A. Mey. | ||
| Description | Yellowish-green, with long, thick, dark, subterranean runners; culm coarse, sharply angled, with long, purplish-black sheaths at base; leaves 4-10 mm wide; upper 1-3 spikes staminate, clublike to lanceolate, the lower 2-5 pistillate, ascend- ing, more or less peduncled; scales ovate-lancolate, aristate; perigynia ovate to lanceolate, glabrous, strongly ribbed, green, tapering to slender beak; beak with slender, often outward-curved teeth. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows. Described from arctic America. |
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.