| Puccinellia geniculata (Turcz.) Krecz. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa geniculata Turcz. | ||
| Description | Loosely tufted; culm up to 30 cm tall; leaves 1.5-2 mm wide, glabrous; panicle with glabrous branches, at first erect, later spreading; spikelets 2—-5-flowered, ob- long; glumes obtuse, with the second longer than the first; lemma purplish, ovate, 3-3.5 mm long, indistinctly nerved, blunt, glabrous at base; palea with glabrous keels; anthers 1.3-2.0 mm. | ||
| Ecology | Salt and brackish marshes along shores. |
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.