Taxon: Poa alpina L.

Common names:

• alpine bluegrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• alpine meadow grass   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• bluegrass   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Alpen-Rispengras   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Dict Gard)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia [n. & s.e.]
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.e.]; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East [n.]
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China [n. & w.?]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Nepal; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Estonia; Russian Federation - European part [n. & e.]; Ukraine [w.]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Greece; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; Greenland; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan [n.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Michigan [n.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [c. & w.], Idaho, Montana, Oregon [e.], Washington, Wyoming [c. & w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Utah [n.]
  Mexico [alpine regions]

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA)
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Rønning, O. I. 1996. The flora of Svalbard. (F Svalbard)
• Smith, S. R. & A. Mintenko. 2000. Developing and evaluating North American native grasses for turf use. Diversity 16:43–45.
• Soreng, R. J. 1990. Amer. J. Bot. 77:1385, 1395, 1396, 1397. [on the affinities & biogeography of Poa species].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Poa alpina.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Poa alpina. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Poa alpina L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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