§1 Plant
Poa alpina L.
vernacular alpine bluegrass — species · Poaceae
§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§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 ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Haines 02100
- Juneau 02110
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Sitka 02220
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Colorado view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Archuleta 08007
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Clear Creek 08019
- Custer 08027
- Dolores 08033
- Eagle 08037
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Hinsdale 08053
- Huerfano 08055
- La Plata 08067
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Mineral 08079
- Montezuma 08083
- Park 08093
- Rio Grande 08105
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Summit 08117
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 ▾
§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
fetched 2026-05-26T14:42:51Z