| Colpodium vahlianum (Liebm.) Nevski | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa vahliana Liebm. | ||
| Description | Caespitose, yellowish-green, up to 15 cm tall; leaves glabrous; stem leaves 1-3; ligules acute, up to 4 mm long; panicle narrow; spikelets lanceolate, violet, with 2—4 flowers; glumes thin, the lower 1-nerved, the upper longer, 3-nerved; lemma ovate- lanceolate, 3-nerved, pubescent in the lower half. | ||
| Ecology | Stony tundra. Described from Niokornak (western Greenland). | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybridizes with Phippsia algida (see p. 92) [Puccinellia vacillans (T. Fries) Schol.]. |
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.