| Luzula arcuata (Wahlenb.) Sw. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Luzula beringensis Tolm., Juncus arcuatus Wahlenb. | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with short runners; culm thin, more or less arched, acute, with 1 stem leaf and brown sheaths, purplish at base; leaves narrow, involute, much shorter than culm; inflorescence with 2—-8 capillary, arched branches, sometimes branched in apex, with 3-5 flowers in glomerules; floral bracts acute, ciliate; perianth leaves lanceolate, acute, dark, whitish in margin and at tip; capsule awned, shorter than perianth. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places in mountains, snow beds. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Very similar to the typical European L. arcuata, despite broad separation between ranges. |
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.