| Hierochloe odorata (L.) Wahlenb. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Holcus fragrans Roem. & Schult., Holcus odoratus L. | ||
| Common name | vanilla grass | ||
| Description | Culms about 20-40 cm tall, rising from slender, underground rhizome; basal leaves long, soft, cauline, short, usually 3; panicle pyramidal, longer and broader than in H. alpina; spikelets brownish to purple, 3-5 mm long, mostly awnless. | ||
| Ecology | Spruce forests, riverbanks, to about 1,000 meters in McKinley Park. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Common on southern coast, more rare to north. Circumpolar map indicates range of entire species complex, including subsp. dahurica (Trin.) Printz (H. dahurica Trin.). |
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.