Carex glacialis, Mackenzie

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 312

110. C. glacialis Mackenzie , Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 37: 244 (1910).

Densely caespitose, with short, creeping rhizomes. Stems 3-15(-20)cm, suberect, smooth; basal sheaths reddishbrown. Leaves much shorter than stems, 0-5-1 (-1-5) mm wide, plicate or canaliculate, pale green, often curled towards apex. Male spike 4-8 x 0-5-1 mm wide, subsessile. Female spikes 1-3, 4-8 X2-3 mm, oblong, lax, subsessile or with peduncles up to 5 mm, overlapping, the upper not overtopping the male spike; lowest bract setaceous, with a sheath c. 1 mm. Female glumes as long as utricles, subglobose, obtuse to subacute, dark reddish- or purplish-brown. Utricles 2-2-5 mm, not stipitate, brownish-green, veinless, abruptly contracted at apex into a very short, cylindrical beak with a scarious apex. 2/z = 34. Dry, stony, exposed places; calcicole. N. Europe, southwards to 59° 30' N. in Norway and C. Ural. Fe Is No Rs (N, C) Su.