| Calamagrostis deschampsioides Trin. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Up to 45 cm tall on southern coast, in arctic localities much smaller; culms genicu- late at base, single, from thin, creeping rhizome; ligules 1-2 mm long, toothed; culm leaves short; panicle pyramidal, with most spikelets toward ends of glabrous panicle branches; glumes 3—4.5 mm long; lemmas of about same length as glumes, with fine, somewhat bent awn, fixed at or above middle, reaching to top of lemma; callus hairs about half the length of lemma, or somewhat longer. | ||
| Ecology | Brackish marshes, wet meadows along seashore, cliffs along sea. Can be expected to occur all along western and northern shore. |
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.