| Arctagrostis latifolia var. arundinacea (Trin.) Griseb. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Vilfa arundinacea Trin., Arctagrostis latifolia subsp. nahannensis Pors. | ||
| Description | Similar to var. latifolia, but taller, up to 1.5 meters tall; panicle open, with long branches, sometimes stout and stiff, sometimes capillary. Extremely variable. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, sandbars along rivers. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. angustifolia (Nash) Hult. (A. angustifolia Nash; A. macrophylla Nash), probably no more than an ecological variation, has long, narrow, flexible, green panicle, and long, lax, basal leaves and often short first glume. Specimens simulating Cinna latifolia occur, but glumes shorter, spikelets not geniculate, and awn lacking. |
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.