| Poa glauca M. Vahl | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa anadyrica Roshev., Poa ammophila Pors., Poa bryophila Trin., Poa rupicola Nash | ||
| Description | Tufted, mostly glaucous; culms mostly stiff, often curved, with only 2-3 joints, uppermost internode long; leaves spreading, long-acuminate, the uppermost short, at or below the middle of culm; 1-2 branches of panicle together, scabrous, straight, spreading, or dense and erect [var. conférta (Blytt) Nannf. (P. conferta Blytt)]; glumes broadly lanceolate; lemma scabrous; keel and lateral nerves pubescent, mostly without cobweb hairs at base. | ||
| Ecology | Extremely variable. Dry slopes, sandy places, in the St. Elias Range to at least 2,300 meters. Described from Norway. |
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.