| Festuca rubra L. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Fustuca rubra subsp. cryophila (Krecz. & Bobr.) Love & Love., Fustuca rubra var. arenaria, Fustuca rubra var. barbata, Fustuca rubra subsp. richardsonii (R. Br.) Hult. | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose, with short, creeping rootstocks, sometimes forming dense tufts; culms glabrous, decumbent at base, 30-70 cm tall; basal leaves setaceous; culm leaves often flat; panicle with divergent lower branches; first glume 1-nerved, second 3-nerved; lemmas usually awn-tipped, narrowly scarious-margined; anthers 2-3 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Moist and sandy places. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Extremely variable. Circumpolar map indicates range of F. rubra in a broad sense. On the Alaska map, all varieties occurring within area of interest are in- cluded except subsp. aucta. |
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.