Avena hookeri Scribn.
 
FamilyGramineae — APG family: Poaceae
SynonymsHelictotrichon hookeri (Scribn.) Henrard.
DescriptionDensely tufted, up to 40 cm tall; leaf blades flat, up to 4 mm broad, glabrous, scabrous in margin; panicle narrow; branches short, with 1-2 spikelets; spikelets 1.5 mm long, 3-6-flowered; lemmas firm, scaberulous, with geniculate awn about 1 cm long,
EcologyDry places, prairies.
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Described from Rocky Mountains. Collected at Duke River, Alaska Highway mile 1098.
Hultén's Flora About

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.