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|accepted_name=Glyceria acutiflora
|accepted_authority=Torr.
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|common_names=Creeping mannagrass
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Meliceae;Glyceria;Glyceria sect. Glyceria;Glyceria acutiflora
|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 Meliceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Glyceria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Glyceria sect. Glyceria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Glyceria acutiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 83
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial. <b>Culms</b> 30-100 cm tall, 3-6 mm thick, spongy, usually decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> smooth, weakly keeled; ligules 5-9 mm; blades 10-15 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, abaxial surfaces smooth, adaxial surfaces of the midcauline leaves often papillose. <b>Inflorescences</b> often racemes, sometimes panicles, 15-35 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, open at anthesis, bases often enclosed in the flag leaf sheaths at maturity; branches 5.5-8 cm (absent in racemose plants), solitary or in pairs, appressed, most branches with 1-3 spikelets, the lower branches sometimes with more than 3; pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 20-45 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, cylindrical and terete except slightly laterally compressed at anthesis, rectangular in side view, with 5-12 florets. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, acute; lower glumes 1.3-4.5 mm; upper glumes 3-7 mm; rachilla internodes 2-3 mm; lemmas 6-8.5 mm, scabridulous, 7-veined, gradually tapering from near midlength to the narrowly acute (< 45°) or acuminate apices; paleas 0.7-3 mm longer than the lemmas, keels winged, tips parallel, intercostal region truncate, often splitting, apices appearing bifid, with 0.4-1 mm teeth; anthers 3, 1-2 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> about 3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Del.;W.Va.;N.H.;Tenn.;Pa.;Mass.;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;Ala.;Ga.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Glyceria acutiflora</i> grows in wet soils and shallow water of the northeastern United States, extending from Michigan and Missouri to the Atlantic coast between southwestern Maine and Delaware. Its long paleas make <i>G. acutiflora</i> the most distinctive North American species of sect. <i>Glyceria</i>.</p>
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name=Glyceria acutiflora
|authority=Torr.
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Del.;W.Va.;N.H.;Tenn.;Pa.;Mass.;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;Ala.;Ga.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;Ky.
|reference=None
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|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Meliceae
|genus=Glyceria
|section=Glyceria sect. Glyceria
|species=Glyceria acutiflora
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