| Schizachne purpurascens (Torr.) Swallen | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Trisetum purpurascens Torr., Schizachne striata (Michx.) Hult., Avena striata Michx., Melica striata (Michx.) Hitche. | ||
| Description | Stoloniferous, culms slender, up to 80 cm tall, much longer than basal leaves, decumbent at base; leaves flat, about 2 mm broad; panicle open, branches usually in pairs, capillary drooping; spikelets 3-5-flowered; first glume 3-nerved, second 5-nerved, much shorter than adjacent lemma; lemmas purplish, bifid at apex, 7- nerved, with long, divergent, bent awn fixed close to tip. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky slopes, alder thickets. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Described from Massachusetts and Montreal. Specimens belong to subsp. purpurascens. Broken line on circumpolar map in- dicates range of subsp. calldosa (Turcz.) Koyama & Kawano (S. callosa Turcz.). |
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.