Poa wolfii |
Poa piperi |
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Wolf's bluegrass |
Piper's blue grass |
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Habit | Plants perennial; not rhizomatous, not stoloniferous, loosely tufted. | Plants perennial; loosely tufted, rhizomatous. |
Culms | 25-90 cm. |
20-55 cm, erect or the bases decumbent, terete or weakly compressed; nodes terete, 0-1 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 1/3-2/3 their length, terete, sparsely to moderately scabrous, glabrous or retrorsely hispidulous, bases of basal sheaths glabrous, distal sheath lengths 2.7-6.5(9.7) times blade lengths; collars of at least some leaves usually sparsely hispidulous; ligules 1-2 mm, scabrous, truncate to obtuse; innovation blades to 40 cm, adaxial surfaces moderately to densely scabrous or hispidulous on and between the veins; cauline blades steeply reduced in length distally, 1-3 mm wide, involute, moderately thick, soft, abaxial surfaces smooth, margins scabrous, apices narrowly prow-shaped, flag leaf blades 1-4.5 cm long. |
Basal branching | mainly pseudointravaginal. |
extra- and intravaginal. |
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. |
4-8 cm, erect to nodding, lanceoloid to ovoid, loosely contracted, sparse, with 18-60 spikelets; nodes with 1-2 branches; branches 3-8 cm, ascending, lax, terete or weakly angled, moderately and sometimes coarsely scabrous, with 3-8 spikelets. |
Spikelets | 4-6.5 mm, laterally compressed; florets 2-5; rachilla internodes to 1 mm, smooth, glabrous. |
6-9(11) mm, lengths to 3 times widths, laterally compressed, not sexually dimorphic; florets 2-5(7); rachilla internodes 1-2 mm, glabrous, scabrous, or sparsely to densely puberulent. |
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. |
subequal, distinctly keeled; lower glumes 3-veined; calluses diffusely webbed, hairs about 1/2 the lemma length; lemmas 4-6(7) mm, lanceolate, distinctly keeled, glabrous, smooth or sparsely to moderately finely scabrous, keels scabrous, lateral veins moderately prominent, margins glabrous, apices acute; palea keels scabrous, sometimes softly puberulent at midlength; anthers vestigial (0.1-0.2 mm) or 2-3 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
Poa wolfii |
Poa piperi |
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Distribution |
AR; IA; IL; IN; MN; MO; OH; VA; WI
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CA; OR |
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 piperi grows in forests openings on serpentine rocks in the Coast Ranges of southwestern Oregon and northwestern California. It used to be included in P. rhizomata (p. 546), from which it differs in its involute leaves and glabrous lemmas. It is dioecious. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 24, p. 514. | FNA vol. 24. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Poeae > Poa > subg. Poa > sect. Sylvestres | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Poeae > Poa > subg. Poa > sect. Madropoa > subsect. Madropoa |
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Name authority | Scribn. | Hitchc. |
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