Botanical name: Poa pratensis    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Poa montana, Poa gelida, Poa costata

Common Meadow Grass is a very common grass of old meadows and pastures where it affords excellent grazing and makes good hay. It is a loosely to densely clustered green or greyish-green perennial grass with stems 20-70 cm high, erect or geniculately rising up. Leaf-blades are flat, folded or bristle-like, 3-40 cm long, 0.8-4 mm wide, abruptly contracted to a blunt hooded tip, rough on the margins; ligule blunt, 1 mm long. Flower panicles are lanceshaped, ovate, pyramidal or oblong, 6-15 cm long, erect or nodding, loose and open to contracted and rather dense; branches 3-5 at the lower nodes, rising up or spreading, floppy, rough. Spikelets are 2-5-flowered, ovate or oblong, 2.5-6 mm long ; glumes unequal, the lower ovate, 1.5-3.5 mm long, 1-nerved, the upper ovate or elliptic, 2-4 mm long, 3-nerved; lemmas oblong to oblong-ovate in side-view, 2-4 mm long, blunt or somewhat pointed, fringed with hairs on the keel and marginal nerves, with very copious wool at the base; palea as long as the lemma, rough along the keels; anthers 1.5-2 mm long. Common Meadow Grass is found in Subarctic to Temperate Northern Hemisphere southwards till the Himalayas, at altitudes of 500-4400 m.

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