Poa secunda J.Presl  
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Family: Poaceae
Curly Blue Grass,  more...Sandberg bluegrass, big bluegrass, Sandberg's bluegrass, Alkali Bluegrass, Big Bluegrass, Nevada Bluegrass, Secund Bluegrass
[Poa ampla Merr.,  more, Poa brachyglossa Piper, Poa buckleyana Nash, Poa canbyi (Scribn.) T.J. Howell, Poa confusa Rydb., Poa englishii St. John & Hardin, Poa fulvescens Trin., Poa gracillima Vasey, Poa gracillima var. multnomae (Piper) C.L. Hitchc., Poa incurva Scribn. & Williams, Poa juncifolia Scribn., Poa juncifolia subsp. porteri Keck, Poa juncifolia var. ampla (Merr.) Dorn, Poa juncifolia var. juncifolia , Poa laevigata Scribn., Poa nevadensis Vasey ex Scribn., Poa nevadensis var. juncifolia (Scribn.) Beetle, Poa orcuttiana Vasey, Poa sandbergii Vasey, Poa scabrella (Thurb.) Benth. ex Vasey, Poa secunda subsp. juncifolia (Scribn.) Soreng, Poa secunda var. elongata (Vasey) Dorn, Poa secunda var. incurva (Scribn. & Williams) Beetle, Poa secunda var. stenophylla (Vasey) Beetle, Poa stenantha var. sandbergii (Vasey) Boivin]
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Culms tufted, 4-10 dm, often purplish below, without rhizomes; lvs forming large basal rosettes 15-30 cm high, usually involute and 1-2.5(-3) mm wide, the few cauline ones 5-7 cm; ligule 3-5 mm; infl narrow and ±dense, (7-)9-16(-20) cm, with short, erect branches, at least some of which bear spikelets to near the base; spikelets 2-5-fld; glumes acuminate, often scabrous, the first lanceolate, 2.4-3.7 mm, the second oblong, 2.9-4.5 mm; lemmas 4-5.5 mm, obscurely 5-veined, scarcely keeled, crisp-puberulent on the lower half, sometimes more strongly so on the central and marginal veins, not webbed; rachilla usually finely puberulent at 30׻ 2n=72-106. Dry soil; e. Que.; n. Mich. and Minn. to Man. and Neb., w. to Alas., Calif., and Tex.

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

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