Poa compressa L.
Canada Bluegrass

Habit: 		Bluish-green perennial, solitary or gregarious from a creeping rootstock.
Culms: 		15-50 cm. tall, decumbent at the base, much flattened, smooth, wiry, bluish-green not tufted.
Blades: 	Bluish green, stiff, erect, 2-10 cm. long, 1-4 mm. wide, often convolute,
		smooth beneath, scabrous above.
Sheaths: 	Shorter than the internodes, loose, flattened.
Ligule: 	Membranous, truncate, 1-3 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle terminal, narrow, with ascending short branches, spikelet-bearing to
		near the base, 2-8 cm. long.
Spikelets: 	Crowded, subsessile, 3-6 (rarely 9)-flowered, 4-6 mm. long, the uppermost floret
		imperfect or rudimentary, the rachis articulate between the flowers.
Glumes: 	2, acute, nearly equal, 2-3 mm. long, persistent, strongly keeled, 3-nerved.
Lemmas: 	Firm, 2-3 mm. long, obtuse, cobweb at base scant or wanting, awnless, obscurely
		5-nerved, often pubescent on the keel and marginal nerves; as well as the rachis,
		the hairs near the base sometimes long and curled (cobweb); more or less bronzed at the summit.
Palea: 		Shorter than the lemma, 2-keeled and 2-nerved.
Habitat: 	Waste places, cultivated grounds, and woodlands in dry, mostly infertile soil.  May-July.
Kansas Range:	East third and Clark county.