Taxon: Poa secunda J. Presl

See also subordinate taxa:

• Poa secunda subsp. secunda (1 accessions)

Common names:

• alkali bluegrass   (Source: Intermt F [as P. juncifolia]) – English
  
• big bluegrass   (Source: Grass VarUSA ) – English
  
• Nevada bluegrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Sandberg bluegrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• wild bluegrass   (Source: Websters Dict [as P. sandbergii]) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Environmental: wildlife habitat   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA; NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  

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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)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory [s.]; United States - Alaska [s.e.]
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [rare], Quebec [e.]
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Michigan [Isle Royale]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Nebraska [n.w.], North Dakota, South Dakota [w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Mexico [n.w.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Chubut, Neuquen, Santa Cruz; Chile [c.]

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. [= P. juncifolia].
• Douglas, G. W. et al., eds. 1994. The vascular plants of British Colombia.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Marsh, V. L. 1952. A taxonomic revision of the genus Poa of the United States and southern Canada. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 47:241.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= P. sandbergii].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Poa secunda.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Poa secunda.

Synonyms:

• (=) Glyceria canbyi Scribn.
  
• (=) Poa ampla Merr.
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)
• (=) Poa canbyi (Scribn.) Howell
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• (=) Poa juncifolia Scribn.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Poa nevadensis Vasey ex Scribn.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (=) Poa sandbergii Vasey
  
• (=) Poa scabrella (Thurb.) Benth. ex Vasey
  

Check other web resources for Poa secunda J. Presl:

• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Florets: 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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