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Also known as bluegrasses
thumb|right|"Bluegrass": The seed pods go from green to purplish blue to brown. During the purplish blue phase the seed stems have a navy-blue coating. right|thumb|Poa trivialis (rough meadow-grass), showing the ligule structure
Species
meadow-grasses
Poa
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
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Research
4,288 papers- Poa annua: An annual species?PloS one · 2022
- Transcriptomic profiling of Poa pratensis L. under treatment of various phytohormones.Scientific data · 2024
- Poa pratensis ECERIFERUM1 (PpCER1) is involved in wax alkane biosynthesis and plant drought tolerance.Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB · 2021
- Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly and Annotation of Allotetraploid Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua L.).Genome biology and evolution · 2023
- Homoeologous evolution of the allotetraploid genome of Poa annua L.BMC genomics · 2023
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thumb|right|"Bluegrass": The seed pods go from green to purplish blue to brown. During the purplish blue phase the seed stems have a navy-blue coating. right|thumb|Poa trivialis (rough meadow-grass), showing the ligule structure
Poa is a genus of about 570 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly in Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly in North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass. Poa () is Greek for 'fodder'. Poa are members of the subfamily Pooideae of the family Poaceae.