Poa alsodes |
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grove blue grass |
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Habit | Plants perennial; not rhizomatous, not stoloniferous, loosely tufted. |
Culms | 31-126 cm. |
Sheaths | closed for 1/2 - 7/8 their length; ligules 0.1-1.7(2.1) mm, smooth or sparsely scabrous, truncate to obtuse; blades 0.8-4.1 mm wide, flat, lax. |
Basal branching | mainly pseudointravaginal. |
Panicles | 11.4-36 cm, erect or lax, narrowly pyramidal, usually open, infrequently contracted; nodes with (2)3-5(7) branches; branches spreading, straight, angled, angles sparsely to moderately scabrous. |
Spikelets | 3.5-6.7 mm, laterally compressed; florets 2-4; rachilla internodes glabrous. |
Glumes | ovate, distinctly keeled, keels scabrous; lower glumes 1-veined; upper glumes shorter than or subequal to the lowest lemmas; calluses webbed; lemmas 2.7-4.2(5) mm, lanceolate, distinctly keeled, keels short-villous to about midlength, marginal and lateral veins glabrous, lateral veins obscure or moderately prominent, intercostal regions glabrous, smooth, apices acute; paleas glabrous or ciliolate over the keels, apices finely scabrous; anthers 0.4-0.8 mm. |
2n | = unknown. |
Poa alsodes |
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Distribution |
CT; DE; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; PA; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC
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Discussion | Poa alsodes grows in mesic woodlands of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, extending south to Illinois, Tennessee, and North Carolina, particularly in the Appalachian Mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 24. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Poeae > Poa > subg. Poa > sect. Sylvestres |
Sibling taxa | |
Name authority | A. Gray |
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