| Poa alpina L. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Tufted; rootstock clothed with light-gray, papery sheaths forming cylinder; leaves short, flat, abruptly pointed, 2-5 mm broad; panicle broad, ovoid to oblong, nearly smooth, lowest branches 2 together; spikelets ovate, often reddish-violet; glumes ovate, broadly hyaline; lemma ovate, obscurely 5-nerved, pubescent on keel, with 2 lateral nerves; palea about as long as lemma. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes, meadows, rocks. Described from the Alps of Lapland and Switzerland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Plants with viviparous spikelets occur [var. vivipara (L.) Willd. (P. alpina f. vivipara L.) ] at Hope and 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.