| Calamagrostis nutkaensis (Presl) Steud. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Calamagrostis aleutica Trin., Deyeuxia aleutica (Trin.) Munro., Deyeuxia nutkaensis Presl | ||
| Description | Culms from short rhizomes, stout, up to 1 meter tall, coarse, 3—4 mm thick at base; ligules about 6 mm long; leaves up to 1 cm broad, scabrous, flat, becoming in- volute; panicle long, narrow, with stiff ascending branches; glumes 5-8 mm long acuminate, scabrous along entire keel; lemma with rather stout, geniculate awri from near base, shorter or about as long as lemma; callus hairs not exceeding half the length of lemma. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places along coast. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybrids with C. canadensis subsp. Langsdorffii occur. Inland specimens marked on map not seen by the writer. |
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.