| Festuca brachyphylla Schult. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Festuca brevifolia R. Br., Festuca ovina | ||
| Description | Densely tufted; culms up to 30 cm high, capillary; basal leaves capillary, soft; panicle cylindric to lanceolate-ovoid, compact; spikelets usually purplish, sometimes yellowish-green; lemmas not strongly involute, short-awned; anthers 0.5-1 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy and rocky places on tundra, and in mountains to at least 2,300 meters. |
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.