| Festuca altaica Trin. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Forming compact tufts; culms smooth, up to 80 cm high; old basal sheaths long- persistent, blades early disarticulating; basal leaves numerous, stiff, filiform, highly scabrous; 1-2 cauline leaves with short, broader blade; panicle open, with thin, scabrous, branched branches, bearing spikelet toward ends; spikelets 2-5 flowered; glumes broadly lanceolate to ovate, acuminate; lemmas 5-nerved, purplish-brown or sometimes yellowish-green (f. pallida Jordal). | ||
| Ecology | Very common, with wide ecological tolerance, from sea level to at least 2,200 meters in mountains. - | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of closely related F. scabrélla Torr. |
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.