Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
 
FamilyCyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae
SynonymsCarex bipartita All., Carex lagopina Wahlenb., Carex tripartita All.
DescriptionLoosely caespitose; culms stiff, 10-30 em tall, usually curved; leaves yellowish- green, 2 mm broad; spikes 2—4, close together, dark-colored, with staminate flowers at base, pistillate flowers at tip, terminal spikes longer than others; scales blunt, hyaline-margined; perigynia brown, ellipsoid or fusiform, with short, smooth, nearly nerveless beak.
EcologyAlpine tundra, snow beds, above tree line. Type locality not given.
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.