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§1 Plant
Poa autumnalis Muhl. ex Elliott
vernacular autumn 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
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 350 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -8 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.8–6.9
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 800,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 350 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bartow 13015
- Bibb 13021
- Burke 13033
- Clarke 13059
- DeKalb 13089
- Early 13099
- Elbert 13105
- Floyd 13115
- Fulton 13121
- Gordon 13129
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Johnson 13167
- Lee 13177
- Meriwether 13199
- Morgan 13211
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Putnam 13237
- Rabun 13241
- Stephens 13257
- Towns 13281
- Webster 13307
- Whitfield 13313
- Wilkes 13317
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Bath 21011
- Bullitt 21029
- Caldwell 21033
- Calloway 21035
- Carlisle 21039
- Carter 21043
- Casey 21045
- Clark 21049
- Crittenden 21055
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Fulton 21075
- Graves 21083
- Hickman 21105
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Johnson 21115
- Knox 21121
- Laurel 21125
- Letcher 21133
- Livingston 21139
- Lyon 21143
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Pike 21195
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Scott 21209
- Trigg 21221
- Wolfe 21237
Louisiana view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 21 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 48 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Alleghany 37005
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Buncombe 37021
- Cabarrus 37025
- Catawba 37035
- Chatham 37037
- Chowan 37041
- Currituck 37053
- Davidson 37057
- Davie 37059
- Duplin 37061
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Gates 37073
- Graham 37075
- Granville 37077
- Harnett 37085
- Haywood 37087
- Hertford 37091
- Hyde 37095
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pender 37141
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Rowan 37159
- Sampson 37163
- Stokes 37169
- Tyrrell 37177
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
- Watauga 37189
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
- Yancey 37199
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Blount 47009
- Bradley 47011
- Cannon 47015
- Carroll 47017
- Cheatham 47021
- Cocke 47029
- Coffee 47031
- Davidson 47037
- DeKalb 47041
- Dickson 47043
- Fayette 47047
- Hamilton 47065
- Hardeman 47069
- Hardin 47071
- Haywood 47075
- Henderson 47077
- Hickman 47081
- Humphreys 47085
- Knox 47093
- Lauderdale 47097
- Lewis 47101
- Madison 47113
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- McNairy 47109
- Meigs 47121
- Montgomery 47125
- Moore 47127
- Morgan 47129
- Perry 47135
- Polk 47139
- Putnam 47141
- Rutherford 47149
- Scott 47151
- Sevier 47155
- Shelby 47157
- Stewart 47161
- Tipton 47167
- Washington 47179
- Wayne 47181
- Weakley 47183
- Williamson 47187
Virginia view state ↗ 57 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Lancaster 51103
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Nottoway 51135
- Orange 51137
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Richmond 51159
- Rockbridge 51163
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/POAU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704226 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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