Festuca arundinacea Schreb. | |||
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Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
Synonyms | Festuca elatior L. | ||
Description | Culms up to 1 meter tall, densely caespitose; leaves 5-10 mm wide, grayish- green, about 7 mm broad; panicle 15-30 cm long, open, drooping, with more than 3 spikelets on the shorter branch at lowest node; glumes narrow, acute; lemma ovate-lanceolate, short-awned, with scarious margin; anthers about 3 mm long. | ||
Ecology | Roadsides, yards, waste places; introduced. Described from Germany. |
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.