| Elymus glaucus Buckl. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Tufted or with short runners; culm 50-100 cm tall; leaf blades thin, flat, glabrous or somewhat scabrous; spikes slender, erect, up to 20 cm long; spikelets greenish- purplish, appressed, subsessile; glumes linear to linear-lanceolate; lemma with membranaceous margin indistinctly 5-nerved, with straight or bent awn longer than lemma, glabrous toward base, scabrous toward apex. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, rocky places, woods. |
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.