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Puccinellia pumila

Puccinellia pumila (Vasey) Hitchc.  
Family: Poaceae
Dwarf Alkali Grass, more...Puccinellie Naine, Smooth Alkali Grass
[Atropis alaskana (Scribn. & Merr.) V.I. Krecz., moreAtropis paupercula (Holm) Steffen, Glyceria paupercula Holm, Glyceria pumila Vasey, Puccinellia kurilensis , Puccinellia langeana var. alaskana (Scribn. & Merr.) T.J. Sørensen ex Hultén, Puccinellia maritima var. minor S. Watson]
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Tufted perennial 1-5(-7) dm, sometimes stoloniferous in late season; lvs flat, 1-2 mm wide; ligules 1-3 mm; infl 3-20 cm, its branches usually smooth or nearly so (as also the pedicels), the upper erect, the lower often spreading or descending, usually bearing spikelets mainly or only beyond the middle; spikelets 3-6-fld; glumes ovate, the first 1-2.7 mm, the second 1.5-4 mm; lemmas ovate to obovate, obscurely veined, glabrous or short-pilose at base, acute to obtuse, the distal margins entire or erose or with a few scattered scabrules; first lemma 2.4-4.2 mm; anthers 0.7-1.5 mm; 2n=42, 56. Salt-marshes and gravelly beaches along the coast; Conn. to Lab. and Hudson's Bay; Calif. to Aleut. Isl. (P. paupercula) The measurements above apply to the usual form of the sp. A taller, perhaps not persistent form from P.E.I., with diffuse infl and much elongate glumes and lemmas (to 10 mm) has been called P. paupercula var. longiglumis Fernald & Weatherby. It may be teratological.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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