| Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Triticum repens L. | ||
| Description | Green or glaucous, loosely tufted, with long, creeping rhizomes; sheaths of leaves often hairy; leaves flat, with thin ribs, glabrous or sparsely hairy above; spikes 7-15 cm long, slender; spikelets 10-20 mm long, 3-7-flowered, falling entire at maturity; glumes 7-12 mm long, not rigid, 3-7-ribbed, acute or abruptly awn-pointed; lem- mas 8-11 mm long, glabrous, awnless or with awn up to as long as body; joints of -rachilla scaberulous; anthers 3.5-5.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed; waste places, roadsides. Described from Europe. |
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.