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|accepted_name=Glyceria melicaria
|accepted_authority=(Michx.) F.T. Hubb.
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|common_names=Melic mannagrass;Glycerie melicaire
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Meliceae;Glyceria;Glyceria sect. Striatae;Glyceria melicaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Meliceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Glyceria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Glyceria sect. Striatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Glyceria melicaria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 75
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial. <b>Culms</b> 50-100 cm tall, 3-5 mm thick, erect. <b>Sheaths</b> smooth, not or only weakly keeled; ligules 0.2-0.9 mm, translucent, rounded to truncate; blades 25-40 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, abaxial surfaces smooth, adaxial surfaces scabridulous. <b>Panicles</b> 15-25 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm wide, linear, nodding; branches 5-9 cm, appressed, scarcely surpassing the node above, with 30-60+ spikelets; pedicels 0.5-2 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 3.5-5 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, laterally compressed, oval in side view, with 3-4 florets. <b>Glumes</b> lanceolate, veins terminating below the apices, apices acute; lower glumes 1.3-2.4 mm; upper glumes 1.7-3 mm; rachilla internodes 0.4-0.6 mm; lemmas 1.9-2.8 mm, smooth or scabridulous, 5-7-veined, veins raised, apices acute, prow-shaped; paleas slightly shorter to slightly longer than the lemmas, lengths 2.5-4 times widths, keels well developed, not winged, tips incurved, narrowly notched between the keels; anthers 2, 0.3-0.5 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1-1.5 mm; hila subequal to the caryopses. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Maine;Md.;N.J.;Conn.;N.Y.;Miss.;Ohio;N.H.;N.C.;Ala.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Tenn.;Va.;Pa.;Vt.;W.Va.;Ga.;Mass.;Ky.;R.I.
|discussion=<p><i>Glyceria melicaria</i> grows in swamps and wet soils. Its range extends from southeastern Ontario east to Nova Scotia, south to Illinois and the northeastern United States and, in the Appalachian Mountains, to northern Georgia. <i>Glyceria</i> xgatineauensis Bowden is a sterile hybrid between <i>G. melicaria</i> and <i>G. striata</i>. For further comments, see p. 77.</p>
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Maine;Md.;N.J.;Conn.;N.Y.;Miss.;Ohio;N.H.;N.C.;Ala.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Tenn.;Va.;Pa.;Vt.;W.Va.;Ga.;Mass.;Ky.;R.I.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Meliceae
|genus=Glyceria
|section=Glyceria sect. Striatae
|species=Glyceria melicaria
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