| Agrostis borealis Hartm. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Culms 10-30 cm tall, mostly with only 1 joint; plant tufted, with erect leafy shoots at base; ligule 1.5-2 mm long; leaves flat, 1.5-3 mm broad, dark green; panicle contracted in age, ovoid or pyramidal, with usually glabrous branches; spikelets 2.5—4 mm long; lemma densely scabrous, with square apex and long, pro- truding, geniculate awn, fixed below middle; anthers 0.6—1 mm long and nearly as broad. | ||
| Ecology | Moist, late-snow-free places, especially in mountains. |
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.