| Agrostis gigantea Roth | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Agrostis alba var. gigantea (Roth) Griseb., Agrostis alba subsp. major Gandoger., Agrostis stolonifera var. major (Gandoger) Farw. | ||
| Description | Similar to A. stolonifera, but with taller, upright culms; lacking stolons, but with short, coarse, subterranean runners; panicle ovate; ligules 2-4 mm long; branches divaricate; leaf blades broad; anthers 1-2 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Introduced; waste places, roadsides, yards, fields. Described from Germany. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Range little known; circumpolar map highly tentative. |
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.