Elymus innovatus Beal
 
FamilyGramineae — APG family: Poaceae
DescriptionCulms from creeping rhizomes; culms with short, cauline leaves; spikes erect, cylindrical, up to 16 cm long, usually shorter; spikelets 1-1.5 cm long, 3—4-flowered; glumes narrow, setaceous or subulate, scabrous or villous, at least 1 often reduced, rudimentary, or absent; lemma longer than body of glumes, with short awn.
EcologySandy soil, in McKinley Park up to at least 1,400 meters.
Taxonomy
notes
Plant from Big Delta, with back of lemma velutinous, is var. velutinus (Bowden) Hult. (subsp. velutinus Bowden).
Hultén's Flora About

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.