| Luzula rufescens Fisch. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Luzula japonica | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose; culm thin, usually with 2 short, reddish-sheathed leaves at base; leaves with long, white hairs in the lower part; inflorescence umbellate, rays with few branches; lowest bract much shorter than inflorescence; flowers single; inner perianth leaves somewhat longer than the outer, chestnut-brown, scarious- margined; capsule pale, acuminate, shorter than perianth. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, woods, gravel bars. |
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.