| Trisetum spicatum subsp. alaskanum (Nash) Hult. | |||
| |||
| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Trisetum alaskanum Nash, Trisetum molle subsp. alaskanum (Nash) Rebr. | ||
| Description | Similar to subsp. spicatum, but taller, with long, dense, contracted, somewhat lobed panicle; narrower, longer, more aristate glumes and lemmas, with longer, straighter awns; inner glume mostly extends beyond florets; culm and sheaths strongly pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows and woods in coastal belt. Described from Alaska. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A specimen similar to the South American subsp. phleoides (D’Urv.) Hult. (T. phleoides D’Urv.) has been collected at Mendenhall (close to Juneau). |
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.