Poa pringlei

Pringle's blue grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Pringle's blue grass is a native perennial grass found in the Klamath Ranges, northern High Cascades, and northern Sierra Nevada in open places, especially snowbeds at elevations of 2,000 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this grass produces delicate inflorescences 1 to 6 centimeters long in a dense, lanceolate arrangement. Growing as a densely tufted plant 5 to 35 centimeters tall, it forms compact clusters with steeply ascending stems. Its narrow leaves are 1.5 to 3 millimeters wide, firm and folded, with upper surfaces finely hairy and transparent ligules 1 to 6 millimeters long. The plant is dioecious, with pistillate flowers found in the northern Sierra Nevada and varying reproductive structures across its range.

Habitat: Open places, especially snowbeds

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 2000-3000 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH, n SNH

California counties: Mono, Inyo, Siskiyou, Butte, Trinity, Nevada, Shasta, Tehama, Plumas, Alpine, Tuolumne, Humboldt, Mariposa, Kern, El Dorado, Placer

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