Taxon: Poa glauca Vahl

See also subordinate taxa:

• Poa glauca subsp. glauca (1 accessions)
• Poa glauca subsp. litvinoviana (1 accessions)

Common names:

• glaucantha bluegrass   (Source: Federal Seed Act ) – English
  
• glaucous bluegrass   (Source: Grass VarUSA [as P. glauca subsp. glaucantha]) – English
  
• glaucous meadow grass   (Source: F GB Ire ) – English
  
• upland bluegrass   (Source: Grass VarUSA [as P. glauca subsp. glaucantha]) – English
  
• upland bluegrass   (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat ) – English   [Poa glauca subsp. glauca]
  
• blaugrünes Rispengras   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA, as P. glauca subsp. glaucantha)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.e.]
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Eastern Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.e.]; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China - Xinjiang, Xizang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland; Iceland; Norway; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [n. & e.]
  Southeastern Europe: Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy
  Southwestern Europe: France
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Greenland; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Newfoundland [n.w.], Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Michigan [n.], Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Minnesota [n.], Nebraska [n.w.], North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Washington [e.], Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [e.], Nevada, Utah

References:

• Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch. (Federal Seed Act)
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA) [= P. glauca subsp. glaucantha].
• Douglas, G. W. et al., eds. 1994. The vascular plants of British Colombia. (F BritCol)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rønning, O. I. 1996. The flora of Svalbard. (F Svalbard)
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. (F GB Ire)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2)
• Welsh, S. L. 1974. Anderson's flora of Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada. (F AlaskaAnd)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Poa glauca.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Poa balfourii Parn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Poa caesia Sm.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Poa glauca var. glaucanthos (Gaudin) Lindm.
  
• (=) Poa glaucanthos Gaudin
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Poa litvinoviana Ovcz. [≡ Poa glauca subsp. litvinoviana]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Poa marginata Ovcz. [= Poa glauca subsp. litvinoviana]
  

Check other databases for Poa glauca Vahl:

• 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
• Inflorescence: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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