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§1 Plant

Poa alpina L.

vernacular alpine bluegrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
POAL2
GBIF
2704234
Rank
species
alpine bluegrass (Poa alpina)
Platephotograph · Věra KafkováCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Poa
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 88 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 88 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 88 counties across 11 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 21 N
Colorado view state ↗ 25 N
Idaho view state ↗ 8 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Montana view state ↗ 2 N
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 N
Oregon view state ↗ 3 N
Utah view state ↗ 9 N
Washington view state ↗ 5 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 11 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/POAL2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2704234 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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