| Holcus lanatus L. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Common name | velvet grass | ||
| Description | Densely tufted, culms coarse, soft, up to 80 cm tall, pubescent at and below nodes from soft, downward-pointing hairs; ligules 24 mm long; culm leaves short, 2—4 mm broad, grayish, puberulent; panicle oblong to broadly ovate, whitish or grayish- green to violet, with pubescent branches; glumes scaberulous, upper floret with hooked awn usually close to apex, lower floret with short hairs at base. | ||
| Ecology | Not native within area considered; waste places, roadsides, yards, fields. De- scribed from Europe. |
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.