Glyceria striata subsp. stricta (Scribn.) Hult. | |||
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Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
Synonyms | Panicularia nervata var. stricta Scribn., Glyceria striata var. stricta (Scribn.) Fern. | ||
Description | Loosely tufted, stiff, up to 50 cm tall; leaves flat, up to 5 mm broad; panicle lax, open, with ascending branches; spikelet purplish, about 3 mm long; lemmas with broad scarious tips, very prominently nerved. | ||
Ecology | Moist ground. G. striata described from Virginia and the Carolinas, subsp. stricta from Colorado—Wyoming boundary. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. striata. |
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.