| Alopecurus alpinus subsp. stejnegeri (Vasey) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Alopecurus stejnegeri Vasey, Alopecurus alpinus var. stejnegeri (Vasey) Hult. | ||
| Description | Similar to A. alpinus, but panicle broader, ovoid, yellowish, villous; glumes long, acute; awn long, geniculate, fixed near base of lemma. | ||
| Ecology | Wet, sandy, and stony soil, chiefly in western Aleutian Islands. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Sheaths very inflated in extreme specimens, upper leaf blades very short and broad. Transgressions to subsp. alpinus occur. |
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.