Summary ⁵

Leymus mollis (syn. Elymus mollis) is a species of grass known by the common names American dune grass, American dune wild-rye, sea lyme-grass, strand-wheat, and strand grass. Its Japanese name is hamaninniku. It is native to Asia, where it occurs in Japan, China, Korea, and Russia, and northern parts of North America, where it occurs across Canada and the northern United States, as well as Greenland. It can also be found in Ic

Description ⁶

Culms solitary or tufted, 30–80 cm tall, smooth, glabrous, but puberulent below spike. Leaf sheath longer or shorter than internode, glabrous; ligule 1–2 mm; leaf blade usually rolled, 10–15 × 0.4–0.7 cm, stiff, abaxial surface smooth, adaxial surface slightly scabrous. Spike 9–15 × 1–1.5 cm; rachis robust, puberulent; internodes 6–10 mm. Spikelets (1 or)2 or 3 per node, 1.5–2 cm, with 2–5 florets; rachilla puberulent. Glumes covering only base of lemma, oblong-lanceolate, 12–20 × 2–2.5 mm, 3–5-veined with keel-like midvein, puberulent, margin membranous. Lemma lanceolate, 5-veined, puberulent, apex mucronate; first lemma 12–14 mm. Palea slightly shorter than lemma, ciliolate along keels. Anthers 5–6 mm. Fl. and fr. May–Aug. 2n = 28.

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