Aira caryophyllea L.
 
FamilyGramineae — APG family: Poaceae
SynonymsAspris caryophyllea (L.) Nash.
Common namehair grass
DescriptionCulms mostly single, erect, up to 15 cm tall; panicle violet, open, with fine branches at oblique angle, bearing spikelets at tops only; glumes acute, exceeding florets; lemmas with geniculate awn.
EcologySandy and waste places. Occasionally introduced at Alaska Highway mile 988. Described from Europe.
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.