| Puccinellia nutkaensis (Presl) Fern. & Weath. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa nutkaensis Presl. | ||
| Description | Densely tufted; culms erect, slender, up to 30 cm (rarely 45 cm) tall; ligules 1-2 mm long, obtuse leaves 1-2 mm w1de soft, flat, folded, glabrous or sparsely scabrous above; pamcle with few, slender, glabrous appressed branches, naked at base; spikelets 56 flowered, 7-8 mm long, first glume subobtuse, l-nerved the second ovate, obscurely ciliate, 3-nerved; lemmas elliptic, glabrous or with a few hairs at base; anthers 0.8-1.2 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Seashores. |
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.