| Carex subspathacea Wormsk. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose, with thin, yellowish-green runners; culm curved, glabrous; leaves 1-2 mm wide, curved, glabrous; spikes 2—4, the upper staminate, up to 10 mm long, the lateral pistillate, sessile or short-stipitate, few-flowered, 5-10 mm long; lower bract broad at base, subspathulate, as long as inflorescence; scales dark brown, with lighter center, 3-nerved, shorter than perigynia; perigynia elliptical with indistinct beak. | ||
| Ecology | Coastal salt marshes. Described from Greenland. |
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.