Poa chaixii Vill.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Poa chaixii Vill.

• Description

  Species Description - Culms 5–12 dm, compressed below, without rhizomes; sheaths compressed, rough, the uppermost much elongate; ligule truncate, 1 mm; blades 6–10 mm wide, abruptly narrowed at the tip; infl elongate, the lower branches in 5’s; spikelets 4–5-fld; first glume 2–3 mm, 1-veined, the second 3–4 mm, 3-veined; lemmas sharply 5-veined, scabrous on the veins and sometimes also between them, not webbed; rachilla glabrous or nearly so; 2n=14. N. Europe; locally intr. with us, as in N.Y., and about Duluth, Minn.

• Common Names

  tall bluegrass