| Luzula wahlenbergii Rupr. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Description | Tufted, dark green or sometimes purplish-green; culm with generally 2 short, narrow, not very conspicuous stem leaves; lowest bract mostly not over 1 cm long; cyme with few-flowered, slender, arching branches; perianth leaves broadly lanceo- late, acute, rust-colored, with paler margin; mature capsule as long as perianth, brown. | ||
| Ecology | Wet tundra, snow beds. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. yezoénsis (Satake) Hult. (L. parviflora var. yezoensis Satake). |
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.