Luzula tundricola Gorodk. | |||
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Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
Synonyms | Luzula nivalis var. latifolia (Kjellm.) Sam., Luzula arcuata forma latifolia Kjellm., Luzula confusa var. latifolia Buchenau, Luzula beeringiana Gjaerevoll. | ||
Description | Loosely caespitose, light-colored; leaves flat, 4-8 mm wide, abruptly pointed glabrous; sheaths broad, light brown; inflorescence with few, capillary, archec branches; lowest bract shorter than inflorescence; capsule as long as perianth. | ||
Ecology | Tundra and mountain tundra. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Hybrids with L. arctica probably occur. |
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.