| Luzula multiflora var. frigida (Buchenau) Sam. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Luzula frigida Buchenau. | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose, lacking runners; leaves 24 mm broad, with long, soft, white cilia in margin; cyme mostly subumbellate, with straight, stiff branches; heads cylindrical, oblong or ovate; perianth leaves lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, acuminate, more or less scarious-margined and scarious-tipped; capsule rounded, longer or shorter than perianth. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, grassy places, from lowlands to mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | An extremely complicated complex. Var. frigida has aggregate inflorescence consisting of 3-4 small, blackish heads, one of which is often long-peduncled; and blackish-brown perianth, longer or short- er than black capsule. |
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.