| Elymus hirsutus Presl | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Elymus borealis Scribn. | ||
| Description | Tufted or with short runners; culms up to 1 meter tall; leaf blades thin, flat, villous or pilose on veins above; spike slender, straight or arched; spikelets ap- pressed, subsessile; glumes linear to linear-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, with awn shorter than bodies or slightly longer; lemma 5-nerved, glabrous or sparsely scabrous in central area, scabrous to long-hirsute near margins, with awn much longer than body. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, rocky slopes, shores. Described from Yakutat Bay or Nootka Sound, Van- couver Island. |
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.