| Anthoxanthum odoratum L. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Common name | sweet grass | ||
| Description | Culms tufted, 20—40 cm tall, leaves light green, 2~4 mm broad, rough above; panicle spikelike, very acute; spikelets brownish-yellow with 1 perfect floret, 2 sterile lemmas, and only 2 stamens. | ||
| Ecology | Introduced at Unalaska village and Sitka, probably also elsewhere along the southern coast. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Dry plant is very sweet-scented (cumarin). |
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.