| Elymus arenarius subsp. mollis (Trin.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Elymus capitatus Scribn., Elymus arenarius var. villosus H. E. Meyer., Leymus mollis (Trin.) Pilger, Elymus mollis Trin. | ||
| Description | Culms from long, stout, creeping rootstocks, with marcescent old leaves at base; leaves firm, flat or involute, 3—15 mm wide; spike stiff, dense, 1-3 dm long; spikelets 3—7-flowered; glumes lanceolate, hirsute on back; lemma awnless, softly hirsute. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy beaches, forming belt along shore; rare on dunes inland. E. arenarius de- scribed from Europe, subsp. mollis from Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. arenarius. E. aleuticus Hult. is the hybrid E. arenarius subsp. mollis X E. hirsutus. |
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.