| Agrostis alaskana Hult. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Agrostis melaleuca Hitche., Agrostis aenea Trin. | ||
| Description | Up to 40 cm tall, tufted; basal leaves short, narrow; culm leaves broad at base, evenly tapering to point; panicle narrow, in age open, with numerous branches in lowest whorl; glumes usually dark purple, about 3 mm long; lemmas white, with short, straight awn, which fails to reach top of lemma; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Plants infected by nematodes have elongated spikelets. Hybrids with A. borealis and A. geminata probably 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.