Poa pratensis L.
POACEAE
- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Poa pratensis L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 67 (1753)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Kentucky bluegrass
English name: English meadow grass English name: Kentucky bluegrass
Spanish name: zacate poa
French name: pâturin des prés
Italian name: Fienarola dei prati
German name: Wiesenrispengras
Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Poa pratensis L. ssp. agassizensis (B. Boivin & D. Löve) Roy L. Taylor & MacBryde
2) Poa pratensis L. ssp. alpigena (Fr. ex Blytt) Hiitonen
3) Poa pratensis L. ssp. angustifolia (L.) Lej.
4) Poa pratensis L. ssp. colpodea (Th. Fr.) Tzvelev
5) Poa pratensis L. ssp. irrigata (Lindm.) H. Lindb.
6) Poa pratensis L. ssp. pratensis
7) Poa pratensis L. ssp. rigens (Hartm.) Tzvelev
8) Poa pratensis L. ssp. subcaerulea (Sm.) Hiitonen
9) Poa pratensis L. var. alpigena Fr. ex Blytt
10) Poa pratensis L. var. angustifolia (L.) Gaudin
11) Poa pratensis L. var. colpodea (Th. Fr.) Soreng
12) Poa pratensis L. var. domestica Laest.
13) Poa pratensis L. var. gelida (Roem. & Schult.) Böcher
14) Poa pratensis L. var. iantha Wahlenb.
15) Poa pratensis L. var. rigens (Hartm.) Wahlenb.
16) Poa pratensis L. var. vivipara (Malmgr.) B. Boivin
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Poa
Species:
Page counter: 3425 ( AVG: 221.18 / 219.883 )
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Poa pratensis
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image
Poa pratensis
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
Poa pratensis
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa pratensis
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa pratensis
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa pratensis
Voucher 090504 02 at Science City, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Seedhead at Science City, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Plant at Kalahaku Haleakala National Park, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Habit at Science City, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Patch at Science City, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Seedhead at Science City, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la
France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in
public domain because its copyright has expired.
Poa pratensis
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image
Poa pratensis
E.H. Reid - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Poa pratensis
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa pratensis
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa pratensis
Seedhead at Science City, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
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: 256.
Poa pratensis
Habit at Kalahaku Haleakala National Park, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - 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. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Poa pratensis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Duino, località Duino, Cernizza, radure della macchia., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Poa pratensis
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
Poa pratensis
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - 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. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Poa pratensis
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa pratensis
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa pratensis
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org
Poa pratensis
Habit at Kalahaku Haleakala National Park, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Habit at Kalahaku Haleakala National Park, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Habit at Kalahaku Haleakala National Park, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Poa pratensis
Habit at Kalahaku Haleakala National Park, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, 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), USA+ (Puerto Rico), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)
Map for Poa pratensis 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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More species:
1) Poa pratensis L. ssp. alpigena (Fr. ex Blytt) Hiitonen [225]
2) Poa pratensis L. ssp. colpodea (Th. Fr.) Tzvelev [353]
3) Poa pratensis L. ssp. pratensis [337]
4) Poa pratensis L. var. vivipara (Malmgr.) B. Boivin [246]
5) Poa rigida L. [232]
6) Poa sieberiana Spreng. [249]
7) Poa supina Schrad. [600]
8) Poa trivialis L. ssp. sylvicola (Guss.) H. Lindb. [298]
9) Podocarpus coriaceus Rich. [325]
10) Podostemum ceratophyllum Michx. [250]
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