Leymus mollis |
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American dunegrass, American lyme grass, dune wildrye, dunegrass, elyme des sables d'amerique, sea lyme-grass, seigle de mer |
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Habit | Plants not cespitose, strongly rhizomatous, occasionally slightly glaucous. | ||||
Culms | 12-170 cm tall, 3-6 mm thick, usually densely pubescent below the spikes for 10-40+ mm. |
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Leaves | exceeded by the spikes; auricles to 0.7 mm; ligules 0.2-2.5 mm; blades 10-94 cm long, 3-15 mm wide, adaxial surfaces scabridulous to scabrous, 20-40-veined, veins subequal, prominently ribbed, closely spaced. |
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Spikes | 5-34 cm long, 10-20 mm wide, with 3-33 nodes, usually with 2 spikelets per node; internodes 4.5-9.5 mm, surfaces and edges similar, hairs on the surfaces 0.1-0.5 mm, on the edges to 0.7 mm. |
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Spikelets | 15-34 mm, with 3-6 florets. |
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Glumes | 9-34 mm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, lanceolate, tapering from midlength or above, flat or rounded on the back, flexible, usually strigillose to pilose or villous, rarely almost glabrous, the central portion scarcely thicker than the margins, 3(5)-veined at midlength, apices acute; lemmas 11-20 mm, densely hairy, hairs 0.5-1 mm, soft, apices acute, unawned; anthers 4-9 mm, dehiscent. |
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Leymus mollis |
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Distribution |
AK; CA; IL; MA; ME; MI; NH; OR; PA; WA; WI; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT; Greenland
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Discussion | Leymus mollis is native to Asia and North America. It is treated here as having two very similar subspecies that have somewhat different ranges. The subspecies are sometimes treated as separate species, but they may be little more than environmentally induced variants. Both subspecies grow primarily on coastal beaches, close to the high tide line, and along some inland waterways, particularly in the arctic. Reports of L. ajanensis (V.N. Vassil.) Tzvelev from North America are based on specimens of L. mollis (D. Murray, University of Alaska, pers. comm. 2006). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 24, p. 356. | ||||
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Triticeae > Leymus | ||||
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Synonyms | Elymus mollis, Elymus arenarius var. villosus, Elymus arenarius var. mollis, Elymus arenarius subsp. mollis | ||||
Name authority | (Trin.) Pilg. | ||||
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