Carex laeviculmis Meinsh.
 
FamilyCyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae
DescriptionCaespitose; culms slender, weak; leaves flat, weak, 1-2 mm broad, rough on margins and at apex; spikes 3-8, the terminal with pistillate flowers at top, the lower pistillate; lowest bract prolonged; scales yellowish-brown with hyaline mar- gins and green midvein, somewhat obtuse; perigynia appressed, green to brownish, several-nerved, tapering to beak 0.5-1 mm long; 2 stigmas.
EcologyWet meadows. Described from Kamchatka (where it does not occur) and Sitka.
Taxonomy
notes
Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related C. Kreczeto- viczii Egor.
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.