Poa secunda

Secund bluegrass, one-sided bluegrass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Secund bluegrass is a native perennial grass found throughout western North American mountain ranges in alpine meadows, grasslands, and open conifer forests. Flowering from May to July, this grass produces small greenish-white spikelets in dense, often one-sided clusters approximately 2 to 25 centimeters long. Growing in densely clustered tufts with slender stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it forms compact, sometimes mat-like clumps. Its narrow leaf blades are typically 0.5 to 3 millimeters wide, soft to firm, and can be flat or slightly folded. The delicate spikelets have lemmas 3.5 to 6 millimeters long, which are weakly keeled and range from smooth to slightly scabrous.

California counties: San Bernardino, Kern, El Dorado, Fresno, Inyo, Modoc, Tuolumne, Contra Costa, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Lassen, Mono, Plumas, Los Angeles, Mariposa, Riverside, Solano, Tulare, Amador, Sonoma, Lake, Humboldt, Napa, Trinity, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Calaveras, Siskiyou, Alpine, Ventura, Alameda, Marin, Shasta, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Del Norte, San Benito, Santa Clara, Imperial, Orange, Nevada, Madera, Butte, Sutter, Mendocino, San Mateo, Placer, Sierra, San Joaquin, Tehama, Glenn, Sacramento, Merced, Colusa, Yolo, Kings

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