| Poa trivialis L. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Tufted, with culms geniculate or decumbent at base; ligules of upper leaves acute, 4-5 mm long (in large specimens); panicle lax, broadly ovate to oblong, with sca- brous branches, 3-5 together at base; glumes narrow, acute, the first short and 1-nerved, the second longer and 3-nerved, scabrous on keel; lemma prominently 5-nerved, glabrous except for silky keel, with distinct tuft of cobweb hairs at base. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places, roadsides, yards; an introduced weed. Described 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.