Poa kelloggii

Kellogg's blue grass, redwood blue grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Kellogg's blue grass is a California native perennial found in northern coastal and northern central coastal bioregions in shady mossy openings within mixed-conifer and redwood forests at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this grass produces delicate pale green to greenish-white flower clusters in open, triangular-shaped inflorescences. Growing 25 to 85 centimeters tall with long underground rhizomes, it forms soft, flat leaf blades 2 to 5 millimeters wide. Its leaves have distinctive open sheaths and small ligules 1 to 4 millimeters long, which are finely rough-textured and truncate to slightly rounded at the tip. The plant's spikelets are notably concentrated in the top third of the branching flower cluster, with branches that droop when bearing fruit.

Habitat: Shady mossy openings in mixed-conifer and redwood forest

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: NCo, n CCo.

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