| Puccinellia deschampsioides Sgrens. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose, with persisting old, withered sheaths; culms stout, erect, 9-leaved, naked above; leaves rigid, involute, scabrous at margin; ligules 2 mm long, truncate; branches in pairs, densely scabrous, ascending, in age spreading; spikelets 3-5-flowered, reddish-purple, variegated with yellow, shining; glumes and lemmas indistinctly nerved, faintly ciliate; first glume subacute, the second obtuse or subacute; lemmas obtuse, delicately pilose below, aureate-translucent at apex; keels of palea spinulose above, glabrous below; anthers 0.7-0.9 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places. |
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.