| Puccinellia interior Sgrens. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose, glaucous; culms erect, up to 55 cm tall; upper sheaths much longer than lower ones; leaves 1.5-2 mm broad, involute with scarious margin; ligules 1.8—-2.3 mm long, obtuse; panicle pyramidal, with about 4 capillary, flexuous, scabrous branches to each node; branches in age reflexed; pedicels somewhat thickened; spikelets purple-variegated, shiny, mostly 3—4-flowered; glumes erose- ciliate, somewhat acute, oblong-lanceolate, the first 1-nerved, the second 3-nerved; lemmas obscurely 5-nerved, obtuse, broadly hyaline-margined, erose, minutely hairy at base, callus hairs present, anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Wet 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.