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Puccinellia angustata

  • Family name: Poaceae
  • Common name: narrow alkaligrass
  • Growth form: Graminoid
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map: Puccinellia angustata

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  1. Puccinellia angustata    , narrow alkaligrass
  2. Close-up of inflorescence. Close-up of pre-anthesis inflorescence,
    Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Tanquary Camp, Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve, 81?24'N, 76?52'W. Pebble-sand bank on S shore of MacDonald River Delta, 1.5 km NE of camp. 21 July 1999. Canada.
    Image author: L.L. Consaul and L.J. Gillespie ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Puccinellia angustata    , narrow alkaligrass
  2. Close-up of plant. Plant growing in silt with small rocks and pebbles, and with a yellow/white deposit at surface. Inflorescence diffuse.
    Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Hazen Camp, N shore of Lake Hazen, Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve, 81?49'N, 71?20'W. Blister Hill, SW facing slope beside tiny meandering runoff stream. 23 July 1999. Canada.
    Image author: L.L. Consaul and L.J. Gillespie ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Puccinellia angustata    , narrow alkaligrass
  2. Plant habitat. Plants growing on dry calcareous sandy silt.
    Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Franklin Pierce Bay 79?26'N, 75?37'W. Aiken 98-029. Canada.
    Image author: Mollie MacCormac ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Puccinellia angustata    , narrow alkaligrass
  2. Plant habitat. Plants growing on dry calcareous sandy silt.
    Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Franklin Pierce Bay 79?26'N, 75?37'W. Aiken 98-029. Canada.
    Image author: Mollie MacCormac ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Puccinellia angustata    , narrow alkaligrass
  2. Spikelet drawing. Puccinellia angustata distinguished from P. bruggemanni by lemma margins straight and thinner in texture than the body, not as inrolled (Sorensen 1955).
    Drawing reproduced from Sorensen (1952), Meddeleser om Gr?nland, with permission.
    Image author: Sorenson
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image