Poa secunda subsp. secunda

One-Sided Blue Grass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bluegrass is a California native perennial found throughout California's varied landscapes from dry slopes to saline meadows and alpine areas at elevations up to 3,900 meters. Flowering from March to August, this grass produces delicate, pale inflorescences 3 to 15 centimeters long with small spikelets. Growing 15 to 90 centimeters tall with slender, generally flat leaves that are soft and sometimes glaucous, it forms dense clumps with thread-like basal leaves. Its leaf blades are narrow, measuring 0.5 to 3 millimeters wide, with ligules 2 to 10 millimeters long that are acute and smooth or slightly rough. The small spikelets feature lemmas 4 to 5 millimeters long, with bases evenly short-hairy and delicate pale anthers.

Habitat: Common. Dry slopes to saline/alkaline meadows to alpine

Bloom period: Mar-Aug

Elevation: < 3900 m.

Bioregions: CA

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

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