| Bromus sitchensis Trin. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Culms stout; up to 1.5 meters tall, glabrous; leaves with sparse white hairs above, 7-12 mm broad; panicle large, lax, drooping, with long branches bearing spikelets toward ends; spikelets large, up to 3.5 cm long, 6-12-flowered, flattened; first glume 3-nerved, the second 5-7-nerved; lemmas compressed-keeled, glabrous to evenly pilose, with awn 5-10 mm long; anthers 5-6 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Woods and meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. aleuténsis (Trin.) Hult. (B. aleutensis Trin.) is similar in all details except in having shorter, erect or appressed panicle-branches. Possibly only an early state of development occurring in the barren Aleutian Islands and at the altitudinal limit of the species. |
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.