Sesleria heufleriana
Plants cespitose, not rhizomatous, rarely stoloniferous, green when young, becoming glaucous and blue in early summer. Culms 25-80 (100) cm; exposed nodes 1-2. Leaves mostly basal; sheaths glabrous; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, ciliate; blades of cauline leaves 0.8-5 cm long, 2-4 (5.5) mm wide, acute or acuminate; blades of flag leaves 1-2.1 cm. Panicles (1) 1.5-4 (8) cm long, 7-11 mm wide, dense, ovoid to cylindrical. Spikelets 3-6 mm, with 2^1 florets, glaucous. Glumes 3-4 mm, ovatelanceolate, coriaceous, sparsely ciliate on the veins and margins, 1-veined, narrowing to 0.5-2.5 mm awnlike apices; lemmas 3-4 mm, ovate to elliptic, pubescent, apices awned and toothed, central veins terminating in a 1-4 mm awn, lateral-veins forming teeth shorter than 1 mm; paleas 3-5 mm, hairy, 2-awned, awns 0.2-1.5 mm; anthers about 4 mm. 2n = unknown.
Discussion
Sesleria heufleriana is native to east-central Europe, where it grows in woods and on rocks, usually over calcareous substrates. It is grown as an ornamental in the Flora region.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"decumbent" is not a number.