Carex gmelini Hook. & Arn.
 
FamilyCyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae
DescriptionDensely caespitose, with short runners; culm coarse, curved at top, with pur- plish, bladeless sheaths at base; leaves 3-5 mm broad; upper spikes sessile, with pistillate flowers above, the lateral stipitate, pistillate; scales ovate, dark brown with pale, long, excurrent midvein, as long as perigynia or longer; perigynia dark, ovate, stipitate, nerved, abruptly contracted into short, emarginate beak.
EcologySandy, saline shores.
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.