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Muttongrass

Poa fendleriana

Also called Mutton Bluegrass, Fendler's Bluegrass, Vasey's Muttongrass, Mutton Grass

Muttongrass
Photo: Matt Lavin, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Part shade, Shade
Native range
W. & C. Canada to N. Mexico
Climate
temperate

About

Poa fendleriana is a species of grass known by the common name muttongrass. It is native to western North America, where its distribution extends from western Canada to northern Mexico.

Where it grows

This is a common grass in western North America. It grows in many types of habitat, including sagebrush, oak woodlands, pinyon-juniper woodlands, desert grassland, and coniferous forest.

Other Poa plants

Catalina grass · Catalina grass · Short bluegrass · 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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Poa fendleriana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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