familyPoaceae
subfamilyPoaceae subfam. Pooideae
tribePoaceae tribe Poeae
genusPhleum
speciesPhleum phleoides

Phleum phleoides

(L.) H. Karsten
Mary E. Barkworth
Common names: Purple-stem cat's tail
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24.
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Illustrator: Cindy Roché, Hana Pazdírková, Linda A. Vorobick

Copyright: Utah State University

Plants perennial; densely ces¬pitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 6-90 cm, erect or nearly so, lower internodes not enlarged or bulbous. Sheaths of the flag leaves inflated; auricles not developed; ligules 1-2 mm, truncate, rounded, or obtuse; blades to 12(26) cm long, 1-6 mm wide, flat or convolute. Panicles 2-14(17) cm long, 4-10 mm wide, narrowly cylindrical, tapering distally; branches not adnate to the rachises. Glumes 2-3.7 mm, oblong-lanceolate, keels usually scabrous or shortly ciliate, sometimes smooth, apices not abruptly narrowed, awned, awns 0.3-0.5 mm; lemmas 2/3 - 3/4 as long as the glumes, glabrous or puberulent, apices acute; anthers about 1.5 mm. 2n = 14, 28.

Discussion

Phleum phleoides is native to dry grasslands from Europe through central Asia. It was collected, in 1990, beside railroad tracks in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Author
Mary E. Barkworth +
Authority
(L.) H. Karsten +
Common name
Purple-stem cat's tail +
Distribution
Conn. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Wash. +, Del. +, D.C +, Wis. +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Greenland +, Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.S. +, N.W.T. +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, W.Va. +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Mass. +, Maine +, N.H. +, R.I. +, Vt. +, Fla. +, Wyo. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, La. +, Tenn. +, N.C. +, S.C. +, Pa. +, Calif. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Va. +, Colo. +, Alaska +, Ala. +, Kans. +, N.Dak. +, Nebr. +, Okla. +, S.Dak. +, Ark. +, Ill. +, Ga. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Ariz. +, Md. +, Ohio +, Utah +, Mo. +, Minn. +, Mich. +, Nev. +, Miss. +, Ky. +  and Oreg. +
Illustration
Present +
Illustration copyright
Utah State University +
Illustrator
Linda A. Vorobick +, Cindy Roché +  and Hana Pazdírková +
Number of lower taxa
0 +
Reference
None +
Source xml
https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse grained fna xml/V24/V24 948.xml +
Synonyms
Gramineae +
Taxon family
Poaceae +
Taxon name
Phleum phleoides +
Taxon parent
Phleum +
Taxon rank
species +
Volume
Volume 24 +