Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) J. & C. Presl
 
FamilyGramineae — APG family: Poaceae
SynonymsAvena elatior L.
DescriptionTufted, with short runners; culms up to more than 1 meter tall; leaf blades long- acuminated, flat at maturity, scabrous, and on upper side finely pubescent 4-7 mm broad; panicle purplish or yellowish, open, with branches 2-6 cm long, capillary, scabrous, congested at base; florets 2, lowest staminate, with twisted and geniculate awn, upper perfect with short stralght awn.
EcologyCollected at Petersburg, where it has been introduced. Roadsides, fields, yards, waste places.
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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.