| Colpodium wrightii Scribn. & Merr. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Puccinellia wrightii (Scribn. & Merr.) Tsvel., Poa wrightii (Scribn. & Merr.) Hitchc. | ||
| Description | Caespitose, glabrous, up to 50 cm tall; basal leaves numerous, short, linear, in- volute with marcescent sheaths; ligules about 3 mm long, acute; panicle with spread- ing or ascending, glabrous branches, bearing few spikelets at apex; spikelets 3—4- flowered, purplish; first glume shorter than the obtuse, 3-nerved second; lemmas lanceolate, 4.5-5 mm long, prominently 5-nerved, appressed, silky-pubescent at base; keels of palea scabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows. |
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.