| Scolochloa festucacea (Willd.) Link | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arundo festucacea Willd. | ||
| Common name | sprangletop | ||
| Description | Culm coarse, glabrous, often branched, about 1 meter tall, from stout, creeping subterranean stems; leaves flat, 30-50 cm long, 6-12 mm broad, long-acuminate, drooping; panicle open, with fine scabrous branches and few spikelets toward ends; glumes 7-10 mm long, somewhat shorter than spikelet; lemmas with 3—-5 short awns at tip, lacking awn on back; short tufts of hair at base of the lemma. | ||
| Ecology | Open water along lakes and creeks. Described from Europe. |
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.