Poa alpina L.
POACEAE
- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Poa alpina L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 67 (1753)
Rank: species
Images of Poa alpina
Common names
U.S.
name:
Alpine bluegrass
English name: alpine bluegrass English name: alpine meadow grass
Italian name: Fienarola delle Alpi
German name: Alpen-Rispengras
Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
= Poa alpina L. ssp. vivipara (L.) Arcang.
= Poa alpina L. var. vivipara L.
= Poa vivipara (L.) Willd.
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Poa alpina L. ssp. vivipara (L.) Arcang.
2) Poa alpina L. var. vivipara L.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Poa
Species:
Page counter: 2880 ( AVG: 221.54 / 290.354 )
Gallery:
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani
Poa alpina
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
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Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Poa alpina
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani
Poa alpina
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 254.
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani
Poa alpina
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Giancarlo Pasquali
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani
Poa alpina
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa alpina
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CO, ID, MI, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)
Map for Poa alpina L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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