| Hordeum brachyantherum Nevski | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Hordeum jubatum subsp. breviaristatum Bowden, Hordeum boreale Scribn. & Sm., Hordeum nodosum | ||
| Description | Culm glabrous, geniculate at base; leaf blades 3-8 mm wide; spikes up to 5 cm long, green or purplish, with extremely brittle rachis and awns about 1 cm long; glumes setaceous, scabrous; lemma of fertile spikelet glabrous, lanceolate, lemma of the lateral spikelets, rudimentary. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, grassy slopes, shores. Sometimes found as weed. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The hybrid H. brachyantherum X jubatum (H. jubatum var. caespitosum (Scribn.) Hitche.; H. jubatum subsp. intermedium Bowden; H. caespitosum Scribn.), with awn only 2-3 cm long, is not rare. Hybrids with Agropyron species, such as A. macrourum, also occur. |
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.