The bold-italic parts are diagnostic descriptions, generated with the aid of Intkey (Dallwitz et al. 1993). They distinguish each taxon in at least two respects from every other taxon. Authors have chosen additional characters to appear in bold-italic, on the basis of their diagnostic value.
• Agropyron latiglume (Scribn. and J.G. Sm.) Rydb.
• Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br.) Griseb. subsp. latifolia • Arctagrostis latifolia subsp. arundinacea (Trin.) Tzvelev
• Arctophila fulva (Trin.) N.J. Andersson
• Calamagrostis Adans • Calamagrostis canadensis var. langsdorffii (Link) Tzvelev • Calamagrostis chordorrhiza A.E. Porsild • Calamagrostis lapponica (Wahlenb.) Hartm. var. sibirica (V. Petrov.) Tzvelev • Calamagrostis neglecta (Ehrh.) P.G. Gaertn., B. Mey, and Scherb. • Calamagrostis purpurascens R. Br. • Calamagrostis stricta subsp. inexpansa (Grey) C.W. Greene • Calamagrostis stricta (Timm) Koeler subsp. stricta • Colpodium vahlianum (Liebm.) Nevski
• Deschampsia (Beauv.) • Deschampsia alpina (L.) Roem. and Schult. • Deschampsia brevifolia R. Br. • Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin. • Deschampsia sukatschewii (Popl.) Roshev
• Dupontia fisheri R. Br. s.l.
• Elymus arenarius L. subsp. mollis (Trin.) Hultén • Elymus alaskanus (Scribn. and Merr.) A. Löve s.l.
• Festuca L. • Festuca baffinensis Polunin • Festuca brachyphylla Schult. and Schult. f. • Festuca edlundiae S. Aiken, Consaul and Lefkovitch • Festuca hyperborea Holmen ex Frederiksen • Festuca rubra L. var. arenaria (Osbeck) Th. Fr. • Festuca rubra subsp. rubra L. s.l. • Festuca rubra subsp. richardsonii (Hook.) Hultén • Festuca saximontana Rydb. • Festuca viviparoidea Krajina ex Pavlick s.l.
• Hierochloë R. Br. • Hierochloë alpina (Swartz) Roem. and Schult. subsp. alpina • Hierochloë pauciflora R. Br.
• Phippsia algida (Sol.) R. Br.
• Poa L. • Poa abbreviata R. Br. • Poa alpina L. • Poa alpigena var. colpodea (Th. Fr.) Schol. • Poa arctica R. Br. subsp. arctica • Poa arctica R. Br. subsp. caespitans Nannf. • Poa arctica var. vivipara Hook. • Poa flexuosa Sm. • Poa glauca Vahl • Poa hartzii Gand. • Poa nascopieana Polunin • Poa pratensis L. subsp. alpigena (Fr. ex Blytt) Hiitonen
• Puccinellia Parl. • Puccinellia agrostidea T.J. Sørensen • Puccinellia andersonii Swallen • Puccinellia angustata (R. Br.) Rand and Redfield • Puccinellia arctica (Hook.) Fernald and Weath. • Puccinellia borealis Swallen • Puccinellia bruggemannii T.J. Sørensen • Puccinellia deschampsioides T.J. Sørensen • Puccinellia langeana (Berlin) T.J. Sørensen ex Hultén subsp. langeana • Puccinellia phryganodes (Trin.) Scribn. and Merr. • Puccinellia poacea T.J. Sørensen • Puccinellia pumila (Vasey) Hitchc. • Puccinellia vaginata (Lange) Fernald and Weath. • Puccinellia vaginata (Lge.) Fernald and Weath. var. paradoxa Th. Sor. • Puccinellia vahliana (Liebm.) Scribn. and Merr. • ×Pucciphippsia vacillans (Th. Fr.) Tzvelev
• Trisetum spicatum (L.) K. Richter • Trisetum spicatum var. maidenii (Gand.) Fernald • Trisetum sibiricum Rupr. • Vahlodea atropurpurea (Wahlenb.) Fr. ex Hartm.
Cite this publication as: ‘S.G. Aiken, L.L. Consaul, and M.J. Dallwitz. 1995 onwards. Poaceae of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval. Version: 10th December 2001. http://www.mun.ca/biology/delta/arcticf/’. Dallwitz (1980), Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993, 1995, 2000) , and Aiken, Dallwitz et al. (1999) should also be cited (see References).
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