| Puccinellia kamtschatica Holmb. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Description | Densely tufted; culms erect, decumbent at base, up to 25 cm tall; ligules about 2 mm long; leaves smooth, soft, flat, drying involute, not more than 2 mm wide; panicle with ascending to spreading branches; branches sparsely scabrous, bearing spikelets on upper half; spikelets 3—4-flowered; first glume acute, the second obtuse and much broader, with hyaline tip; lemmas obtuse, glabrous; anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. sublaévis Holmb. differs from the type plant in having glabrous (rather than scabrous) panicle branches and pedicels. |
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.