About

Poa glauca, glaucous meadow grass, is a rare native grass found only in a few mountainous areas of Britain, producing narrow, blue-green, waxy leaves and open flower sprays with green panicles often tinged purple in summer. A fascinating native grass for a sunny, well-drained rock garden.

About the genus

Poa, the bluegrasses and meadow grasses, are annual or perennial grasses forming clumps or mats of linear, often keeled leaves and open flowering panicles of small spikelets in late spring and summer. A large genus including important lawn and pasture grasses.

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