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Poa abbreviata
Also called Northern Bluegrass, Abbreviated Bluegrass, Dwarf Bluegrass, Low Speargrass
Short bluegrass is a small, tufted perennial grass of Arctic and alpine regions in North America and Greenland, growing only 5 to 20 cm tall. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care depends on mimicking cold, moist, open alpine conditions.
Poa abbreviata is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is widely distributed in alpine and circumpolar regions of North America such as Alaska, Yukon, Nunavut, Greenland, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho etc. It blooms during the month of June.
This species has a wide distribution range stretching the Alpine and circumpolar regions of North America. Regions include Alaska, Yukon, Nunavut, Greenland, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Alberta.
Catalina grass · Catalina grass · Limestone Cushion Poa · Poa acinaciphylla · Grass Lane Cove River · Alpigene Bluegrass · Alpine bluegrass · Grove bluegrass · Hartz's Bluegrass · Narrow-leaved meadow-grass · Annual Meadow Grass · Texas bluegrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Poa abbreviata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
