Poa wolfii |
Poa kelloggii |
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Wolf's bluegrass |
Kellogg's blue grass, redwood blue grass |
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Habit | Plants perennial; not rhizomatous, not stoloniferous, loosely tufted. | Plants perennial; rhizomatous, loosely tufted, culms solitary to several. |
Culms | 25-90 cm. |
28-85 cm, erect or the bases decumbent, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete, 1-2 exserted. |
Sheaths | closed for 1/2 - 3/4 their length, smooth or sparsely scabrous, margins not ciliate; ligules 0.3-2.1 mm, smooth or sparsely scabrous, truncate to obtuse, ciliolate; blades 0.6-3.5 mm wide, flat. |
closed for about 1/15 – 1/5 their length, sometimes fused for a longer distance by a narrow hyaline membrane, terete, bases of basal sheaths glabrous, distal sheath lengths 0.8-1.5 times blade lengths; ligules 0.5-3 mm, scabrous, usually lacerate; blades scarcely reduced in length distally, 2-5 mm wide, flat, lax, apices narrowly prow-shaped, flag leaf blades 5-15 cm long. |
Basal branching | mainly pseudointravaginal. |
mainly extravaginal. |
Panicles | 7.5-15(18) cm, lax, pyramidal, open, sparse; nodes with 1-3(5) branches; branches 3-8 cm, ascending, straight to spreading, angled, angles prominent, scabrous. |
10-20 cm, erect, pyramidal, open, sparse, with 25-70 spikelets; nodes with 1-3(5) branches; branches 5-15 cm, ascending, straight, spreading to eventually reflexed, angled, angles mostly moderately to densely scabrous, with 5-15 spikelets. |
Spikelets | 4-6.5 mm, laterally compressed; florets 2-5; rachilla internodes to 1 mm, smooth, glabrous. |
4.5-6 mm, lengths 3.5 times widths, laterally compressed; florets 2-3; rachilla internodes, at least some, longer than 1 mm, smooth, glabrous. |
Glumes | 1/2-1/3 the length of the adjacent lemmas, distinctly keeled, keels scabrous; lower glumes subulate to narrowly lanceolate, (1)3-veined; upper glumes shorter than or subequal to the lowest lemmas; calluses webbed; lemmas (2.5)3.2-4.7 mm, lanceolate, green, distinctly keeled, keels and marginal veins long-villous, hairs extending up almost the whole keel length, lateral veins prominent, intercostal regions smooth, minutely bumpy, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely softly puberulent, apices acute, blunt, or pointed, white, not bronze; palea keels softly puberulent at midlength, apices scabrous; anthers (0.5)0.8-1.2(1.5) mm. |
distinctly keeled; lower glumes 1-3-veined; upper glumes shorter than or subequal to the lowest lemmas; calluses webbed, hairs over 1/2 the lemma length; lemmas 3.5-5 mm, narrowly lanceolate, distinctly keeled, smooth, glabrous throughout, lateral veins moderately prominent, apices acute to acuminate; paleas smooth to scabrous over the keels; anthers about 2 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 56. |
Poa wolfii |
Poa kelloggii |
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Distribution |
AR; IA; IL; IN; MN; MO; OH; VA; WI
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CA |
Discussion | Poa wolfii is an uncommon species that grows in boggy areas of eastern deciduous forests, primarily west of the Appalachian divide. It differs from P. sylvestris (p. 512) in having fewer branches, larger spikelets, and lemmas that are usually glabrous between the veins. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Poa kelloggii grows in rich coastal forests, especially redwood forests, in California. It is not common. Reports from Oregon and British Columbia are based on misidentifications of P. laxiflora (p. 538) and P. howellii (p. 534), respectively. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 24, p. 514. | FNA vol. 24, p. 514. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Poeae > Poa > subg. Poa > sect. Sylvestres | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Poeae > Poa > subg. Poa > sect. Sylvestres |
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Name authority | Scribn. | Vasey |
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