Poa secunda var. nevadensis

Nevada bluegrass

Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Nevada bluegrass is a California native perennial grass found in sagebrush uplands, desert regions, and mountain forests throughout the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada at elevations of 900 to 3,400 meters. Flowering from June to July, this grass produces delicate pale green to greenish-white flower clusters in open panicles 10 to 20 centimeters long. Growing with slender stems 50 to 100 centimeters tall, it develops a tufted growth habit with multiple stems emerging from a dense base. Its leaves are narrow and fine, typically folded or rolled inward, with leaf blades reaching 20 to 30 centimeters in length and featuring slightly rough sheaths. The individual spikelets are small, measuring 6 to 10 millimeters long with smooth lemmas 3.5 to 5 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Moist desert and sagebrush uplands and mountain forests

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: (600-)900--3400 m

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