Taxon: Poa arida Vasey

Common names:

• plains bluegrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.], Manitoba [s.], Saskatchewan [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Iowa [n.w.], Kansas, Minnesota [w.], Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Montana
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Dorn, R. D. 1977. Manual of the vascular plants of Wyoming.
• Dorn, R. D. 1984. Vascular plants of Montana.
• Eilers, L. J. & D. M. Roosa. 1994. The vascular plants of Iowa.
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Poa arida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Poa arida.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Poa arida.

Check other web resources for Poa arida Vasey:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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