| Phleum commutatum var. americanum (Fourn.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Phleum alpinum var. americanum Fourn., Phleum haenkeanum Presl, Phleum alpinum L. | ||
| Common name | mountain timothy | ||
| Description | Culm up to 60 cm tall, usually lower; panicle short, cylindrical or oblong, rarely more than 4 times longer than broad, usually shorter, green to purplish; upper sheaths inflated; awns two-thirds to three-fourths as long as body of glumes; anthers light-colored. | ||
| Ecology | Mountain slopes, alpine meadows, to about 1,700 meters; common along southern coast, more rare inland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. americanum usually differs from circumpolar plant in having taller height, stronger inflated sheaths, and shorter awns on glumes; populations around Pacific belong to this type. |
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.