Koeleria asiatica, Domin

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 218

4. K. asiatica Domin , Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2, 5: 947 (1905).

Laxly caespitose, with short creeping rhizomes. Stems 5-20 cm, slender, pubescent. Leaves of non-flowering shoots 4-10 cm x 1- 2 mm, convolute or flat, soft; sheaths loosely imbricate, persistent, slightly dilated, glabrous, with parallel veins. Panicle 10- 40x7-12 mm, compact-spiciform. Spikelets 3-4 mm. Glumes equal to subequal, acute, green or purplish, with a silvery hyaline margin, glabrous. Lemma shortly awned, densely pubescent. 2/2 = 28. Dry tundra, rocky slopes and screes. Ural and N.E. Russia. Rs (N, C). (N. & C. Asia.)