| Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br.) Griseb. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Colpodium latifolium R. Br. | ||
| Description | Culms often stout, from stout, creeping, branched rhizome; leaves mostly cauline, up to 1 cm broad, short, erect, flat, acute, scabrous; ligules long, up to 5 mm; panicle contracted, many-flowered, mostly purplish, with short, crowded branches; spikelets linear-lanceolate, short-pedicellated, 1-flowered; glumes lanceolate, slightly unequal, first shorter than lemma; lemma hispidulous, lacking or with indistinct lateral nerves. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, along rivers, on tundra. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Extremely variable. Circumpolar map indicates range of entire species complex. |
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.