| Calamagrostis purpurascens R. Br. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Calamagrostis yukonensis Nash, Calamagrostis purpurascens var. sylvatica Thurb., Deyeuxia purpurascens (R. Br.) Kunth. | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with dry, whitish marcescent leaves at base; culms stiff, 2-5 dm tall; leaves 24 mm broad, flat, in age involute, harsh; panicle spikelike, stiff, thick, grayish-purple, in age whitish-brown; glumes scarious, scabrous, ovate-lanceolate, longer than lemma; lemma emarginate, dentate at apex, with coarse, geniculate, exserted awn from near base; callus hairs shorter than lemma. | ||
| Ecology | Rocks and cliffs, preferably on calcareous soil. Common in interior. In St. Elias Mountains, to at least 2,000 meters. Described from Mackenzie district and Arctic Sea. |
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.