Publication: Handb. Skand. Fl. (ed. 4) 30. 1843.

Origin: Native

selected vouchers: WTU

Notes: FNA24: "Vahlodea atropurpurea grows in moist to wet, open woods, forest edges, streamsides, snowbeds, and meadows, in montane to alpine and subarctic habitats. Plants from northwestern North America tend to have wider, more pubescent leaves and shorter lemma hairs than those elsewhere. They are sometimes treated as a distinct taxon, but the variation is continuous."

References: (none)