| Trichophorum alpinum (L.) Pers. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Scirpus hudsonianus (Michx.) Fern., Eriophorum hudsonianum Michx., Eriophorum alpinum L., Scirpus trichophorum Aschers. & Graebn. | ||
| Description | Culms yellowish-green, stiff, triangular in cross section, scabrous, in dense row from ascending, short, creeping rhizome; upper sheath with square mouth and blade 1 cm long; involucral scale with excurrent median nerve, not exceeding spike; bristles long, white. | ||
| Ecology | Peat bogs, wet meadows. Described from Europe. |
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.