| Carex atratiformis subsp. raymedndii (Calder) Pors. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex raymondii Calder. | ||
| Description | Caespitose; culm scabrous above, slender, triangular, much longer than leaves, phyllopodic; leaves about 3-5 mm wide; spikes 3—4, approximate, ellipsoid-cylin- drical, the apical with pistillate flowers above, the lateral pistillate or with few basal, staminate flowers; lowest bract foliaceous, shorter than inflorescence; scales narrowly ovate, acute, usually shorter than perigynia, purplish-red, more or less hyaline-margined; perigynia broadly ovate, nerveless, pale, sometimes purplish below the 0.4-mm-long, bidentate, purplish beak; 3 stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places. |
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.