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|accepted_name=Phleum alpinum
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Alpine timothy;Fléole alpine;Phléole alpine
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|name=Phleum commutatum var. americanum
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|name=Phleum commutatum
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|name=Phleum alpinum var. commutatum
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|name=Phleum alpinum subsp. commutatum
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Phleum;Phleum alpinum
|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 Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Phleum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Phleum alpinum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 672
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, sometimes shortly rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 15-50 cm, often decum¬bent, lower internodes not en¬larged or bulbous. <b>Sheaths</b> of the flag leaves inflated; auricles not developed, leaf edges sometimes wrinkled at the junction of the sheath and blade; ligules 1-4 mm, truncate; blades to 17 cm long, 4-7 mm wide, flat. <b>Panicles</b> 1-6 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, usually 1.5-3 times as long as wide, subglobose to broadly cylindric, not tapering distally; branches adnate to the rachises. <b>Glumes</b> 2.5-4.5 mm, sides scabrous, keels hispid, apices awned, awns 0.8-2.5(3.2) mm; lemmas 1.7-2.5 mm, about 3/4 as long as the glumes, mostly glabrous, keels hairy, hairs to 0.1 mm; anthers 1-1.5(2) mm. <b>2n</b> = 14, 28.</span><!--

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|distribution=Maine;N.H.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Wash.;Utah;Alaska;Mich.;Idaho;Mont.;S.Dak.;Wyo.;Ariz.;Alta.;B.C.;Greenland;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Phleum alpinum</i> grows along stream banks, on moist prairie hillsides, and in wet mountain meadows. It is a circumboreal species extending, in the Flora region, from northern North America southward through the mountains to Mexico and South America. It is also widespread in northern Eurasia. Isolated, depauperate plants of <i>P. pratense</i> may be difficult to distinguish from <i>P. alpinum</i>; there is never any difficulty in the field.</p><!--
--><p>Kula et al. (2006) demonstrated that American and northern European plants of <i>Phleum alpinum</i> belong to the same taxon. They mistakenly identified the taxon as P. commutatum Gaudin. Because Humphries (1978) lectotypified <i>P. alpinum</i> on a plant from Lapland, it has priority over P. commutatum. North American plants belong to <i>P. alpinum</i> L. <i></i>subsp.<i> alpinum</i> and are tetraploid. The count of 2n =14 applies to <i>Phleum alpinum</i> subsp. rhaeticum Humphries, which grows in the mountains of central and southern Europe.</p>
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name=Phleum alpinum
|authority=L.
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|synonyms=Phleum commutatum var. americanum;Phleum commutatum;Phleum alpinum var. commutatum;Phleum alpinum subsp. commutatum
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobick;Cindy Roché;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Maine;N.H.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Wash.;Utah;Alaska;Mich.;Idaho;Mont.;S.Dak.;Wyo.;Ariz.;Alta.;B.C.;Greenland;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Phleum
|species=Phleum alpinum
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