Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Poa compressa L.


POACEAE Family selection - Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Poa compressa L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 69 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Canada bluegrass
en English name: Canada bluegrass
English name: Canadian bluegrass
French name: pâturin comprimé
Italian name: Fienarola compressa
German name: flaches Rispengras

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Poa
Species:


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Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Cormons, centro cittadino., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Cormons, centro cittadino., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Cormons, centro cittadino., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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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: 259.

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Prealpi Carniche, Val Meluzzo, su depositi limo-sabbiosi., PN, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Prealpi Carniche, Val Meluzzo, su depositi limo-sabbiosi., PN, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA SCS. 1989. Midwest wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. Midwest National Technical Center, Lincoln. - Not copyrighted image

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Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), FRA (SPM)

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(*) 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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More species:
1) Poa confinis Vasey [346]
2) Poa confusa Rydb. [134]
3) Poa curtifolia Scribn. [351]
4) Poa cusickii Vasey ssp. pubens D.D. Keck [91]
5) Poa cusickii Vasey var. epilis (Scribn.) C.L. Hitchc. [89]
6) Poa cuspidata Nutt. [524]
7) Poa douglasii Nees ssp. macrantha (Vasey) D.D. Keck [211]
8) Poa fendleriana (Steud.) Vasey var. longiligula (Scribn. & T.A. Williams) Gould [136]
9) Poa glauca Vahl var. rupicola (Nash ex Rydb.) B. Boivin [134]
10) Poa infirma Kunth [436]

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