| Puccinellia agrostoidea Sgrens. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, purplish-tinged; culms erect, up to 20 cm tall; stem leaves about 1.3 mm wide at base, with strongly scabrous margins, involute; upper sheaths widened; ligules about 2 mm long, truncate, often lacerate; panicle linear-lanceolate, with fasciculate, appressed, capillary, nearly glabrous branches; spikelets 4-5 mm long, 2—4-flowered; bracts purple, translucent, obscurely nerved, not ciliolate; first glume ovate, acute, 1-nerved, the second oblong-ovate, acutish, 3-nerved; lemmas oblong, 5-nerved, rounded or abruptly pointed, slightly hairy on nerves near base; anthers 1.2-1.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Salt or alkaline soil. |
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.