| Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Avenella flexuosa (L.) Drej., Aira flexuosa L. | ||
| Description | Loosely tufted, culm geniculate at base, smooth, shiny, usually with 2 joints; basal leaves filiform, scabrous; culm leaves short; ligules about 2 mm long; panicle ovate in mature state, with undulating, somewhat scabrous branches; spikelets yel- lowish-brown to violet, florets close together; glumes shorter than spikelet; lemma with somewhat exserted awn. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes and woods. Probably not native within area of interest. Described from Europe. |
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.