| Juncus mertensianus Bong. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Description | Culms in rows from short, brown rootstocks; stems 5-15 cm tall, with 2-3 leaves and brown or purplish basal sheaths; heads solitary, blackish-brown, hemispherical; bract spathelike, equaling or often extending well beyond head; perianth segments subequal, lanceolate, subulate-tipped; anthers 6, much shorter than filaments; cap- sule oblong-obovate, emarginate or obtuse, about as long as perianth. | ||
| Ecology | Wet subalpine meadows, snow beds. |
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.