| Poa arctica R. Br. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Culms 10-20 cm tall, thin, glabrous, straight, mostly with 2 nodes, from long, light-colored, bowlike subterranean runners; leaves flat; panicle pyramidal, open, with 2 branches together; spikelets often violet; glumes lanceolate; lemma with in- distinct nerves, pubescent in lower half, and with more or less distinct tuft of cobweb hairs at base. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places on tundra, in meadows and thickets, and in the mountains to at least 2,150 meters. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Plants with viviparous spikelets occur. |
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.