Poa hispidula Vasey
 
FamilyGramineae — APG family: Poaceae
DescriptionCulms decumbent at base, from creeping rhizome; leaves mostly cauline, short, 3—4 mm wide; ligules about 4 mm long; panicle ovate with scabrous branches, 2 to several together; spikelets ovate-lanceolate, green or slightly purplish, 3-5-flowered; glumes with prominent nerves and fine spines along keel; lemma acute, narrow, 5-nerved, scabrous, long-hairy on nerves in lower half and with distinct tuft of cobweb hairs at base.
EcologyMeadows.
Taxonomy
notes
In Aleutian Islands, small specimens with small spikes, narrow leaves, and more or less glabrous panicle branches occur (var. aletitica Hult.), as well as viviparous specimens (var. vivipara Hult.).
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.