346 Hierochloe alpina (Willd.) Roem. & Schult.

This mainly arctic-montane species is widely distributed in Eurasia and N. America. Subsp. orthantha (Sørens.) G. Weim. (small circles on the map) is distinguished from S. Greenland and also found in adjacent N. America and in the Beringia area with a few occurrences. The species belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 20 and map 13).