Poa macrantha

Seashore blue grass, Seashore Blue Grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Seashore blue grass is a California native perennial found in northern coastal areas in coastal dunes at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces pale green to blue-green flowers in dense, narrowly ovate inflorescences 3 to 15 centimeters long. Growing with tufted stems 10 to 60 centimeters tall, it spreads through very long, stout rhizomes or stolons. Its leaves are firm and narrow, 2 to 4 millimeters wide, folded and inrolled with finely hairy upper surfaces. The plant is dioecious, with distinctive grass-like growth forming dense clumps along coastal environments.

Habitat: Coastal dunes

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: n&ampc NCo

California counties: Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte, El Dorado

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.