| Poa lanata Scribn. & Merr. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa petraea Trin., Poa platyantha Kom. | ||
| Description | Culms from creeping rhizome; leaves short, rigid, 2—4 mm wide, the upper much shorter than its sheath; ligules about 4 mm long; panicle pyramidal, few-flowered, lower branches 2 together; spikelets ovate, purplish, 3—6-flowered; glumes acute, 3-nerved, scabrous on keel; lemmas with broad hyaline margins, obtuse, 5-nerved, densely lanate in lower half, strigose above. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A highly variable plant. Viviparous specimens also occur (var. vivipara Hult.). |
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.