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Puccinellia phryganodes

  • Family name: Poaceae
  • Common name: creeping alkaligrass
  • Growth form: Graminoid
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Puccinellia phryganodes

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  1. Puccinellia phryganodes    , creeping alkaligrass
  2. Close-up of inflorescence. Terminal spike with staminate flowers at the base seen as white anther filaments. Lateral spikes entirely pistillate.
    Baffin Island, Iqaluit. Nunavut, Canada.
    Image author: Susan Aiken ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Puccinellia phryganodes    , creeping alkaligrass
  2. Close-up of plant. Green plants between the markers growing in a saline meadow with Puccinellia phryganodes. Long flowering stems are prostrate on the substrate.
    Canada.
    Image author: Aiken and Brysting ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Puccinellia phryganodes    , creeping alkaligrass
  2. Close-up of plants. Plant 10-15 cm tall. Inflorescence multispicate with spikes close together.
    Nunavut, Baffin Island, Iqaluit. Aiken 97-027, Canada.
    Image author: Susan Aiken ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Puccinellia phryganodes    , creeping alkaligrass
  2. Close-up of plants. Slightly flexuous stems, taller than the leaves. Scale bar in cm.
    Nunavut, Baffin Island, Iqaluit, Canada.
    Image author: Susan Aiken ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Puccinellia phryganodes    , creeping alkaligrass
  2. Plants in habitat. Gray-green, prostrate plants growing in a saline meadow. Scale bar in cm.
    Nunavut, Baffin Island, Iqaluit, Canada.
    Image author: Susan Aiken ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image