| Puccinellia distans (L.) Parl. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa distans L. | ||
| Description | Tufted; culms slender, up to 60 cm tall; leaves 2-6 mm wide, flat; panicle pyra- midal, with branches at first ascending, later deflexed, scabrous, fasciculated; spike- lets 3—6-flowered; glumes ovate, blunt erose-ciliate, the first 1-nerved, the second 3-nerved; lemmas about 2 mm long, broadly ovate, obscurely nerved, obtuse or subtruncate, erose-ciliate, hyaline at apex, with a few hairs at base; palea erose- ciliate at apex; anthers 0.7-0.9 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Roadsides, yards, waste places; an introduced weed. |
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.