| Glyceria maxima subsp. grandis (S. Wats.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Glyceria hulteniana Love., Glyceria grandis S. Wats., Glyceria grandis var. komarovii Kelso | ||
| Description | Culms stout, up to 1.5 meters tall; panicle 24 dm long, highly compound, with numerous, usually purplish, spikelets on smooth, capillary branches; leaf blades more than 2 dm long, up to 12 mm broad; spikelets 4-8-flowered, 5-6 mm long; glumes acute; lemma 7-nerved, with blunt apex, lacking scarious margin. | ||
| Ecology | Wet ground, banks of streams. G. maxima described from Stockholm, subsp. grandis from Quebec. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A link in a circumpolar chain of very closely related taxa. Alaskan plants have somewhat sinaller spikelets and smaller second glumes than subsp. maxima. Cir- cumpolar map gives range of entire species complex. |
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.