| Carex livida (Wahlenb.) Willd. | |||
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| Family | Cyperaceae — APG family: Cyperaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Carex limosa var. livida Wahlenb. | ||
| Description | Stoloniferous; culms smooth; leaves light-bluish-gray, usually longer than culm; lowest bract nearly as long as inflorescence, with long sheath; terminal spike usually staminate, the lateral 1-3, nearly sessile, few-flowered; scales obtuse, with green center and margin; perigynia light-colored, blunt, beakless. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. Plants in southern part of American range are var. Grayana (Dew.) Fern. (C. Grayana Dew.) |
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.