| Luzula spicata (L.) DC. | |||
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| Family | Juncaceae — APG family: Juncaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Juncus spicatus L. | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose; leaves acute, canaliculate, pubescent at base, with ‘coarse, pale sheaths having hairs at mouth; stem slender, arching; spike nodding in age, on capillary peduncles; floral bracts long-ciliate; perianth with broad scarious margin; capsule brownish-black, shorter than perianth. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel, stony places, in mountains; to about 2,300 meters in the St. Elias Mountains. Circumpolar map indicates range of L. spicata, in broad sense. |
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.