| Agrostis exarata Trin. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Culm up to 70 cm tall, tufted; sheaths smooth or slightly scabrous; panicle mostly spikelike, dense, with numerous spikelets crowded to base of branches; glumes acuminate or awn-pointed, long and narrow, scabrous; lemma emarginate, with excurrent nerves, with or without awn; palea very small. | ||
| Ecology | Open ground at low altitude, common along southern coast of mainland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. purpurascens Hult., with spikelets less crowded at base of panicle branches, violet spikelets, and less scabrous glumes, probably represents hybrid form with A. alaskana. |
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.