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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Poa cuspidata   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Poa cuspidata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Poa cuspidata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24 (2007)

Poa cuspidata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-15-011:

Poa cuspidata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Poa cuspidata

 

COMMON NAME:
early bluegrass


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image of Poa cuspidata, early bluegrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_pocu4_001_lvd

        

image of Poa cuspidata, early bluegrass

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_poa_cuspidata_2914

March    Catawba County    NC

Spikelets 3- or 4-flowered, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

image of Poa cuspidata, early bluegrass

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_poa_cuspidata_2917

March    Catawba County    NC

image of Poa cuspidata, early bluegrass

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_poa_cuspidata_1

April    Iredell County    NC

Panicle branches mostly in pairs, distant, spreading, spikelets near ends, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Poa cuspidata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Poa cuspidata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Poa cuspidata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24
Poa cuspidata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-15-011:
Poa cuspidata   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Poa cuspidata

 

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1106

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests at low to high elevations, ravines, bluffs, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Spring
Bisexual

Inflorescence an open panicle

FRUIT:
Spring
Grain brownish/Reddish
Grain

 

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