| Poa paltstris L. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa rotundata Trin., Poa triflora Scribn. | ||
| Description | Tufted; culm smooth, tall, erect, creeping at base; ligules acute, about 2 mm long; leaves scabrous, narrow; panicle oblong to ovate, with scabrous branches, the lowest 4—6 together; spikelets ovate; glumes lanceolate, subequal, obscurely nerved; lemma lanceolate, with purplish band, obscurely nerved keel and margmal nerve silky, tip scarious, tuft of cobweb hairs at base. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places. 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.