Puccinellia grandis Swallen | |||
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Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
Description | Densely caespitose; culms up to 90 cm tall, erect or geniculate; ligules 2-3 mm long, obtuse; leaves flat, drying involute, 2-3 mm broad, those of the innovations soft; panicle pyramidal, with scabrous branches; branches at first appressed, later spreading; spikelets purple-tinged; first glume 1l-nerved, obtuse or subacute, the second 3-nerved, obtuse, broader than the first, often minutely toothed; lemmas with obscure nerves, abruptly narrowed to obtuse or subacute apex, sparsely pilose at base; anthers mostly 1.3-1.5 mm long. | ||
Ecology | Salt marshes. |
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.