| Puccinellia nuttalliana (Schult.) Hitchc. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Puccinellia airoides (Nutt.) Wats. & Coult., Poa nuttalliana Schult. | ||
| Description | Tufted; culms slender, stiff, erect, up to 60 cm tall; leaves 1-2 mm wide; panicle with ascending or spreading, strongly scabrous branches; spikelets 3—6-flowered, with rather scattered florets; glumes thick, erose-ciliate, 1-nerved, the second longer than the first, 3-nerved; lemma ovate, abruptly contracted to blunt or subacute apex, erose-serrulate, with nerves pubescent in lower part; anthers 0.6-0.7 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | 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.