| Puccinellia andersonii Swallen | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, glaucescent, reddish-tinged; culms robust, geniculate, 2-leaved; leaves 2 mm wide, folded, abruptly contracted at apex; ligules 1.5-2 mm long; panicle contracted, with 2-3 glabrous, ascending branches at lower nodes; spikelets sub- sessile or short-pedicellate; pedicels thickened; spikelets pink to purplish, 4-7- flowered; glumes acute, the first 1-nerved, the second 3-nerved, irregularly den- tate; lemmas entire at apex, somewhat acute, thin, translucent at apex, slightly pilose at base; callus hairs present; anthers 0.8—1 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.