Elymus interior Hult.
 
FamilyGramineae — APG family: Poaceae
SynonymsLeymus interior (Hult.) Tsvel., Elymus mollis subsp. interior (Hult.) Bowden.
DescriptionCulm 30-50 cm tall; leaves scabrous above; spike grayish-violet, erect, stiff, 6-10 cm long, 1-1.7 cm wide; glumes lanceolate, with narrow, scarious margin, 1-3- nerved, lanate; lemma with excurrent median nerve, densely pubescent. Similar to E. innovatus, but with broader glumes.
EcologySandy soil.
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.