Lapland Sedge (Carex lapponica)
Description
Plants densely cespitose, in small clumps; rhizomes short. Culms erect, relatively strict, 15-40 cm. Leaves: sheaths relatively tight, pale brown abaxially, inner band thin, hyaline, concave at summit; ligules as wide as long; blades pale green to gray-green, flat, 10-20 cm - 1-2 mm, subequal to or shorter than culms, papillose, densely so abaxially. Inflorescences 1.5-4 cm - 4-5 mm; proximal bracts shorter than to exceeding spikes, distal bracts usually scalelike. Spikes 3-6(-7), gynecandrous, proximal sometimes remote, distal approximate, containing 10-20 perigynia, suborbicular to ovoid, 3-7 - 3-5 mm; terminal spike staminate for 1/2 length, not or scarely clavate. Pistillate scales hyaline with green, 3-veined center when young, usually brownish tinged in age, broadly ovate, subequal to, not concealing perigynia, apex obtuse to acutish. Perigynia appressed-ascending, gray-green, becoming pale brown in age, obscurely many-veined on both faces, elliptic-ovate, 1.8-2.1 - 1-1.3 mm, widest near middle, membranous; beak short, entire. Achenes yellowish brown, oblong-obovate, 1.25 - 1 mm, dull to slightly glossy. 2n = 56.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Poales
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Family: Cyperaceae
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Genus: Carex
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