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@ Franklin Bluffs 
@ Sagwon 
Galbraith Lake 
Atigun Canyon 
@ Dietrich Valley \ 
Caribou Mountain@® @ Fort Yukon 
@ Eagle Summit 
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McKinley Park @ @ Tok Junction 
Eureka Glennallen 
Hatcher Pass @ SO Copper Center 
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Fig. 2. Map of Alaska with locations of transplant gardens (denoted by 
arrows) and collection sites for plant materials entered in transplant study. 
remarkably prolific. Some of the arctic entries 
produced more flowering culms at Palmer than 
at Prudhoe. 
Shoot weights generally were greater at 
Palmer, but leaves often were longer at Prudhoe, 
particularly in the third year. As a rule, leaves 
were slightly to considerably wider at Prudhoe. 
Plants generally spread more in basal growing 
area at Palmer. 
No definite patterns were reflected in the 
performances of the different polyploid races. 
More detailed discussions of performances 
by species follows. Morphological and other data 
are presented in Table 1. 
Alopecurus alpinus 
The Colorado entries winter-killed at Prud- 
hoe while surviving at Palmer. The Alaskan entry 
from the Kenai Peninsula was severely winter 
injured at Prudhoe. 
The north to south gradient in collection 
sites for this species was reflected in plant height 
(or leaf lengths) in the experimental gardens 
(Fig. 4). Plants from the more southern loca- 
tions in Alaska grew taller at both Palmer and 
Prudhoe. However, shoot heights of the Colo- 
rado entries were less than that of the south- 
central Alaska entry at the Palmer site. Those 
relationships did not hold true for the other 
parameters. Some of the arctic entries were as 
productive in shoot weight as the boreal and 
Colorado entries at Palmer and Prudhoe. 
The arctic entries produced a short, dense 
growth at the boreal site and a decidedly taller 
growth at the arctic site. The plants had spread 
throughout the pot at both sites, but generally 
