| Poa alpigena (E. Fries) Lindm. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa pratensis var. alpigena E. Fries. | ||
| Description | Culm up to 40 cm tall, from slender rhizome with runners; leaves narrow, up to 2 mm wide; panicle dense, oblong to pyramidal, with 3-5 nearly glabrous, more or less erect branches at lower nodes; first glume narrow, lanceolate, bent; lemma with cobweb hairs at base. | ||
| Ecology | Grassy slopes, gravel bars. Described from mountains of Norway. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Viviparous plants occur in the north and, rarely, in the mountains. |
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.