| Stipa comata Trin. & Rupr. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Culms 2-6 dm tall, with crowded sheaths at base, upper sheaths including pan- icle, often loose; basal leaves involute, filiform, usually about half length of culm; culm leaves 0.5-1.5 dm long, 2—4 mm wide, flat or involute; panicle loose, branches erect or spreading, naked below; glumes tapering into slender awn; lemma sparsely pubescent, with long awn. | ||
| Ecology | Roadsides; introduced into southern Yukon. Described from Carlton House and Missouri Portage. |
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.