I took a picture of this grass beside the Colville River, North Slope, Alaska. I am learning how to identify the flowers, but have not learned enough to move into the field of the grasses yet. The grass was growing with other grasses and a lot of flowers on a high spot of gravel bar between two channels of the river. It was gravel with a layer of fine sand and mud from less than an inch thick up to 4 inches thick. (I am sure it was deeper than that in places.) If anyone can get me pointed to the right family of grass it would be greatly appreciated. Dickie
Thank you very much tipularia. It took a lot of Internet research, (golly - there are a lot of brome grasses) (grin), and I found 4 possibilites. But looking farther into each of them I could not really get them to match up with my picture in one way or another. Bromus inermis took 6 pages of WEB Sites, but I believe this is the plant. I found many pictures where the head was the same color as mine, and finally I found 2 pages where the yellow, (now my ignorance shows - are they called anthers in the grasses?), match up. Again, thanks a lot for your help. Dickie
