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Internal ID UUID6440321cbf50a071596150
Scientific name Poa arctica
Authority R.Br.
First published in Chlor. Melvill. : 30 (1823)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Poa abbreviata Blytt ex Griseb. Fl. Ross. 4: 373 1852
Poa alpicola Nash ex Rydb. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 47. 1900
Poa alpigena var. vivipara (Malmgren) Schol. Skr. Svalbard Nordishavet 62: 88 1934
Poa aperta Scribn. & Merr. Circ. Div. Agrostol. U.S.D.A. 32: 4 (1901)
Poa arctica f. vivipara (Hook.) Scoggan Fl. Canada 1: 51 (1978)
Poa arctica subsp. aperta (Scribn. & Merr.) Soreng Great Basin Naturalist 45(3): 404. 1985
Poa arctica subsp. grayana (Vasey) Á.Löve, D.Löve & B.M.Kapoor Arctic Alpine Res. 3(2): 143. 1971
Poa arctica subsp. longiculmis Hultén Fl. Alaska Yukon : 202 (1942)
Poa arctica subsp. williamsii (Nash) Hultén Fl. Alaska Yukon : 202 (1942)
Poa arctica var. grayana (Vasey) Dorn Vasc. Pl. Wyoming 298 (1988):.
Poa arctica var. vivipara Hook. in Parry Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 246 (1840)
Poa callichroa Rydb. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 603 (1905)
Poa cenisia subsp. arctica (R.Br.) K.Richt. Pl. Eur. 1: 83. 1890 (1890)
Poa chionogenes Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 66: 302 (1919 publ. 1920)
Poa colorata Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 252 (1854)
Poa debilis V.N.Vassil. Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 8: 215 (1940)
Poa eyerdamii Hultén Fl. Alaska Yukon : 20 (1942)
Poa flexuosa var. pallida Lange Consp. Fl. Groenland. 3: 178 (1880)
Poa flexuosa var. vivipara Malmgren Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 19: 253 (1862)
Poa grayana Vasey Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 272. 1893
Poa groenlandica Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 252 (1854)
Poa intermedia Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 252 (1854)
Poa longipila Nash ex Rydb. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 46. 1900
Poa petschorica Roshev. Izv. Bot. Sada Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 30: 775 (1932)
Poa phoenicea Rydb. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 605 (1905)
Poa rigens var. vivipara (Malmgren) Schol. Skr. Svalbard Nordishavet 62: 94 1934
Poa tricholepis Rydb. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 606 (1905)
Poa williamsii Nash Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 2: 156 (1901)
Poa koniensis Prob. Fl. Ross. Dal'nego Vostoka : 449 (2006)
Poa arctoserpentinicola Jurtzev & Prob. Fl. Ross. Dal'nego Vostoka : 447 (2006)
Poa charkeviczii Prob. Fl. Ross. Dal'nego Vostoka : 448 (2006)
Poa cenisia var. arctica (R.Br.) Richt. Pl. Eur. 1: 83 1890
Poa flexuosa var. contracta Rosenv. Consp. Fl. Groenland. 3: 735 (1892)
Poa pratensis var. vivipara (Malmgren) B.Boivin Naturaliste Canad. 94: 527 (1967)

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Language Common/alternative name
English arctic bluegrass
Bulgarian арктическа ливадина
Finnish lapinnurmikka
Finnish luminurmikka
Norwegian Bokmål jervrapp
Russian Мятлик печорский
Russian Мятлик слабый
Russian Мятлик арктический
Swedish polargröe
Chinese 极地早熟禾

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Poa arctica subsp. depauperata (Fr.) Nannf. Symb. Bot. Upsal. 4(4): 61. 1940 (1940)
Poa arctica subsp. arctica

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  • Asia-temperate
    • Russian Far East
      • Kamchatka
      • Khabarovsk
      • Kuril Islands
      • Magadan
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Buryatiya
      • Chita
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • Tuva
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
    • Northern Europe
      • Finland
      • Iceland
      • Norway
      • Svalbard
      • Sweden
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Labrador
      • Newfoundland
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Aleutian Islands
      • Greenland
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000891580
Canadensys 7846
USDA Plants POAR2
Tropicos 25511387
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:416515-1
The Plant List kew-435235
Plantarium 28771
Open Tree Of Life 478359
Observations.org 120718
NCBI Taxonomy 227218
Nature Serve 2.146185
IPNI 416515-1
iNaturalist 167078
GBIF 2704207
EPPO POAAT
EOL 1114578
USDA GRIN 28908
Wikipedia Poa_arctica

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Scientific Literature Top

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Vegetation type, not the legacy of warming, modifies the response of microbial functional genes and greenhouse gas fluxes to drought in Oro-Arctic and alpine regions Fry EL, Ashworth D, Allen KA, Chardon NI, Rixen C, Björkman MP, Björk RG, Stålhandske T, Molau M, Locke-King B, Cantillon I, McDonald C, Liu H, De Vries FT, Ostle NJ, Singh BK, Bardgett RD FEMS Microbiol Ecol 10-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10673709
doi:10.1093/femsec/fiad145
PMID:37951295
Plant traits and associated data from a warming experiment, a seabird colony, and along elevation in Svalbard Vandvik V, Halbritter AH, Althuizen IH, Christiansen CT, Henn JJ, Jónsdóttir IS, Klanderud K, Macias-Fauria M, Malhi Y, Maitner BS, Michaletz S, Roos RE, Telford RJ, Bass P, Björnsdóttir K, Bustamante LL, Chmurzynski A, Chen S, Haugum SV, Kemppinen J, Lepley K, Li Y, Linabury M, Matos IS, Neto-Bradley BM, Ng M, Niittynen P, Östman S, Pánková K, Roth N, Castorena M, Spiegel M, Thomson E, Vågenes AS, Enquist BJ Sci Data 04-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10477187
doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02467-7
PMID:37666874
The structure and functional profile of ruminal microbiota in young and adult reindeers (Rangifer tarandus) consuming natural winter-spring and summer-autumn seasonal diets Yildirim E, Ilina L, Laptev G, Filippova V, Brazhnik E, Dunyashev T, Dubrovin A, Novikova N, Tiurina D, Tarlavin N, Laishev K PeerJ 24-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8627130
doi:10.7717/peerj.12389
PMID:34900412
Pulse grazing by reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can increase the phylogenetic diversity of vascular plant communities in the Fennoscandian tundra Gibson K, Olofsson J, Mooers AØ, Monroe MJ Ecol Evol 07-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC8571604
doi:10.1002/ece3.8131
PMID:34765128
Taxonomic revision of Blumeria based on multi-gene DNA sequences, host preferences and morphology Liu M, Braun U, Takamatsu S, Hambleton S, Shoukouhi P, Bisson KR, Hubbard K Mycoscience 20-May-2021
PMCID:PMC9157761
doi:10.47371/mycosci.2020.12.003
PMID:37091321
Bioclimatic gradients and soil property trends from northernmost mainland Norway to the Svalbard archipelago. Does the arctic biome extend into mainland Norway? Bandekar G, Vestgarden LS, Jenkins A, Odland A PLoS One 17-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7498165
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0239183
PMID:32941518
Combining stable isotopes, morphological, and molecular analyses to reconstruct the diet of free‐ranging consumers Bonin M, Dussault C, Taillon J, Lecomte N, Côté SD Ecol Evol 27-May-2020
PMCID:PMC7381590
doi:10.1002/ece3.6397
PMID:32724540
Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect Walker DA, Epstein HE, Šibík J, Bhatt U, Romanovsky VE, Breen AL, Chasníková S, Daanen R, Druckenmiller LA, Ermokhina K, Forbes BC, Frost GV, Geml J, Kaärlejarvi E, Khitun O, Khomutov A, Kumpula T, Kuss P, Matyshak G, Moskalenko N, Orekhov P, Peirce J, Raynolds MK, Timling I Appl Veg Sci 27-Feb-2019
PMCID:PMC6519894
doi:10.1111/avsc.12401
PMID:31130818
Photosynthetic limitations in two Antarctic vascular plants: importance of leaf anatomical traits and Rubisco kinetic parameters Sáez PL, Bravo LA, Cavieres LA, Vallejos V, Sanhueza C, Font-Carrascosa M, Gil-Pelegrín E, Javier Peguero-Pina J, Galmés J J Exp Bot 10-May-2017
PMCID:PMC5854023
doi:10.1093/jxb/erx148
PMID:28830100
Vascular plant biodiversity of the lower Coppermine River valley and vicinity (Nunavut, Canada): an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora Saarela JM, Sokoloff PC, Bull RD PeerJ 31-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC5300018
doi:10.7717/peerj.2835
PMID:28194307
Warming experiments elucidate the drivers of observed directional changes in tundra vegetation Hollister RD, May JL, Kremers KS, Tweedie CE, Oberbauer SF, Liebig JA, Botting TF, Barrett RT, Gregory JL Ecol Evol 12-Apr-2015
PMCID:PMC4485969
doi:10.1002/ece3.1499
PMID:26140204
Diminished Response of Arctic Plants to Warming over Time Kremers KS, Hollister RD, Oberbauer SF PLoS One 13-Mar-2015
PMCID:PMC4358989
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116586
PMID:25767881
Long-term monitoring at multiple trophic levels suggests heterogeneity in responses to climate change in the Canadian Arctic tundra Gauthier G, Bêty J, Cadieux MC, Legagneux P, Doiron M, Chevallier C, Lai S, Tarroux A, Berteaux D Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 19-Aug-2013
PMCID:PMC3720055
doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0482
PMID:23836788
Early inflorescence development in the grasses (Poaceae) Kellogg EA, Camara PE, Rudall PJ, Ladd P, Malcomber ST, Whipple CJ, Doust AN Front Plant Sci 23-Jul-2013
PMCID:PMC3721031
doi:10.3389/fpls.2013.00250
PMID:23898335
Summer Resource Selection and Identification of Important Habitat Prior to Industrial Development for the Teshekpuk Caribou Herd in Northern Alaska Wilson RR, Prichard AK, Parrett LS, Person BT, Carroll GM, Smith MA, Rea CL, Yokel DA PLoS One 05-Nov-2012
PMCID:PMC3489831
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048697
PMID:23144932

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