EcoFlora - Poa

Poa
Family: Poaceae	Gleason & Cronquist Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Spikelets 2-several-fld, ±compressed laterally, disarticulating above the glumes and between the lemmas; glumes lanceolate to ovate, acute or subacute, 3-veined or the first 1-veined; lemma in most spp. keeled, often scarious at the margins and tip, generally 5-veined (but the intermediate veins obscure or obsolete in some spp.), often with a tuft of long, cobwebby hairs (called a web) at the base; uppermost florets reduced, unisexual or vestigial; rachilla in a few spp. finely puberulent or scaberulous, otherwise glabrous; lvs ending in a boat-shaped tip; panicles open or contracted, the branches generally in fascicles of 2-5, sometimes more. 150+, widespread, mostly temp. and boreal. Many of the spp. confluent through polyploid (often apomictic) forms. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: South Dakota Poa agassizensis Map not Available Poa ampla Map not Available Poa angustifolia Map not Available Poa annua Map not Available Poa arida Map not Available Poa attica Map not Available Poa brachyglossa Map not Available Poa buckleyana Map not Available Poa bulbosa Map not Available Poa canbyi Map not Available Poa cilianensis Map not Available Poa compressa Map not Available Poa confusa Map not Available Poa crocata Map not Available Poa distans Map not Available Poa englishii Map not Available Poa eyerdamii Map not Available Poa fendleriana Map not Available Poa glauca Map not Available Poa glaucifolia Map not Available Poa gracillima Map not Available Poa hypnoides Map not Available Poa incurva Map not Available Poa interior Map not Available Poa juncifolia Map not Available Poa kingii Map not Available Poa laevigata Map not Available Poa longiligula Map not Available Poa nemoralis Map not Available Poa nevadensis Map not Available Poa orcuttiana Map not Available Poa palustris Map not Available Poa pectinacea Map not Available Poa pilosa Map not Available Poa pratensis Map not Available Poa pseudopratensis Map not Available Poa reptans Map not Available Poa rigida Map not Available Poa rupicola Map not Available Poa sandbergii Map not Available Poa scabrella Map not Available Poa secunda Map not Available Poa spectabilis Map not Available Poa sylvestris Map not Available Poa trichodes Map not Available Poa triflora Map not Available Poa trivialis Map not Available