| Agrostis scabra Willd. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Agrostis michauxii Trin., Agrostis hiemalis | ||
| Description | Up to 50 cm tall, tufted, with numerous narrow leaves at base; panicle at first narrow, in mature state very diffuse, one-third to two-thirds as long as entire plant, lacking spikelets at base of harshly hispid, capillary branches; glumes 2—3 mm long, lanceolate-attenuate, scabrous on keel; lemma 1.2-1.7 mm long, awnless; anthers 0.4-0.7 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, open slopes, alluvial flats. Described from North America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Common in southern half of range of interest (except in westernmost part). Forms with awned lemma 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.