| Vulpia megalura (Nutt.) Rydb. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Festuca megalura Nutt. | ||
| Description | Culms 20-50 cm tall; leaf blades narrow; panicle with appressed branches; spikelets 4-5-flowered; lemma glabrous or with short hairs on back, sometimes ciliated at margin, shorter than its awn; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | A garden weed at Dawson; also found at Manley Hot Springs. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Range incompletely known; introduced in eastern North America and in 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.