Phleum alpinum
Phleum subulatum
alpine timothy
Italian timothy
with lower internodes not enlarged or bulbous.
sheaths of uppermost culm leaves inflated;
blades flat; to 17 cm × 4–7 mm.
ovoid, lanceolate, or oblong, 1.5–3 times as long as wide, 1–6 cm × 5–12 mm.
2.5–4.5 mm, 3-veined;
sides scabrous;
keels with spreading hairs;
tips awned; awns 1.5– 2.5(3.2) mm.
1.7–2.5 mm, 5–7-veined, mostly glabrous;
keels with spreading hairs;
tips acute; awnless.
1–2 mm.
=14, 28.
Phleum alpinum
Phleum subulatum
Moist mountain meadows, streamsides, coastal headlands. 50–2800m. BR, BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Est, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; western and northern North America; South America, circumboreal. Native.
Phleum alpinum is a small grass with a dense, spike-like inflorescence and inflated sheaths on the uppermost leaf. Phleum pratense is a taller grass with longer inflorescences and less distinctly inflated sheaths. It usually grows at lower elevations, though there is an overlap in range.
[This taxon does not have a floristic treatment in Flora of Oregon.]
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting
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