Nardus

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Nardus

• Description

  Genus Description - Spikelets 1-fld, solitary and sessile, arising from shallow cavities and alternating on 2 sides of a 3-sided rachis, with a single minute glume; lemma lance-subulate, obscurely 3- veined, prolonged into a short awn, sharply infolded near each margin, the edges meeting over the linear obtuse palea; anthers filiform, elongate; stigma 1, filiform; densely cespitose perennial, the lower sheaths bladeless or with much reduced blade, the upper with narrow, linear, involute blade, the bluish spikelets in a slender spike, ascending, all turned in one direction. Monotypic.