Eriophorum brachyantherum Trautv. & Mey.
 
FamilyCyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae
SynonymsEriophorum vaginatum var. opacum Bjornstr., Eriophorum opacum (Bjornstr.) Fern.
DescriptionTufted; slender culm about 30—40 cm tall, with 2 sheaths; basal leaves filiform, surrounded by grayish-brown sheaths; spike with more or less cuneate base, and with lance-attenuate, dark, not translucent scales; bristles slightly yellowish-white; anthers 1.5 mm long.
EcologyWet places.
Hultén's Flora About

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.