| Luzula arctica Blytt | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Luzula nivalis (Laest.) Beutl., Luzula campestris var. nivalis Laest. | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose, often dark-colored, grayish-violet; leaves flat, acute, short, glabrous or nearly so, 2-3 mm wide; culm stiff, straight, with 1-2 aggregate, small heads; lowest bract inconspicuous; floral bracts not ciliated; capsule longer than perianth. | ||
| Ecology | Tundra and mountain tundra, moist slopes. Described from Scandinavia. |
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.