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Also known as bluegrasses
thumb|right|"Bluegrass": The seed pods go from green to purplish blue to brown. During the purplish blue phase the seed stems have a navy-blue coating. right|thumb|Poa trivialis (rough meadow-grass), showing the ligule structure
OverviewAI-generated
Poa is a genus of plants in the family Poaceae, classified within the order Poales. It belongs to the class Liliopsida and the phylum Tracheophyta. The taxon is also referred to by common names such as bluegrass, meadow-grasses, Rapgræs, and Rispengräser. Its fruit type is a caryopsis, and the type species is Poa pratensis.
The genus has an accepted taxonomic status. Records associated with Poa are held by institutions including the University of Alberta Museums, with occurrences documented in the United States and Canada.
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Species
meadow-grasses
Poa
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11,610
- With media
- 6,920
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
Research
4,288 papers- Poa annua: An annual species?PloS one · 2022
- Transcriptomic profiling of Poa pratensis L. under treatment of various phytohormones.Scientific data · 2024
- Poa pratensis ECERIFERUM1 (PpCER1) is involved in wax alkane biosynthesis and plant drought tolerance.Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB · 2021
- Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly and Annotation of Allotetraploid Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua L.).Genome biology and evolution · 2023
- Homoeologous evolution of the allotetraploid genome of Poa annua L.BMC genomics · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Selected species
- Cultivation and uses
- Insect foodplant
- References
thumb|right|"Bluegrass": The seed pods go from green to purplish blue to brown. During the purplish blue phase the seed stems have a navy-blue coating. right|thumb|Poa trivialis (rough meadow-grass), showing the ligule structure
Poa is a genus of about 570 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly in Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly in North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass. Poa () is Greek for 'fodder'. Poa are members of the subfamily Pooideae of the family Poaceae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.