| Puccinellia angustata (R. Br.) Rand & Redf. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa angustata R. Br. | ||
| Description | Caespitose; old basal sheaths whitish; culms stout, rigid, decumbent at base; cauline leaves 1.5-2.5 mm wide, flat, nearly glabrous, upper sheaths longer than leaves; ligules 2.5—4.0 mm long; panicle dense, erect, with stout, ascending branch- es, scabrous above, longer and shorter ones from the same node; spikelets purple, pedicelled to subsessile, 3—4-flowered; first glume l-nerved, oblong-lanceolate, acute, the second 3-nerved, oblong, indistinctly toothed; lemmas obscurely 5-nerved, copiously pilose on back below, translucent at apex; keels of palea long-hairy below, spinulose at apex; callus hairs profuse; anthers 0.5-0.8 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places along shore. |
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.