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.