Poa nemoralis
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| Internal ID | UUID64403239ba487983118165 |
| Scientific name | Poa nemoralis |
| Authority | L. |
| First published in | Sp. Pl. : 69 (1753) |
General Uses Top
Suggest a correction!Common products:
- Seeds used as laboratory standard material in ecology and germination assays.
Industrial and craft applications:
- Whole plants or straw are occasionally trialed in small-scale papermaking as a source of short-fiber pulp when mixed with other fibers; no major industrial adoption is documented.
- Hay or cut stems have served as livestock fodder or roughage in agronomic contexts.
Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
- No documented culinary, beverage, or food-processing uses.
Colorants and tanning:
- No documented use as a dye, ink, or tanning material.
Wood and fiber:
- Although a herbaceous grass, it has been evaluated as a model plant in morphogenesis and developmental genetics that underpin horticultural breeding of turf and forage grasses.
Fragrance and cosmetics:
- No documented use in fragrances or cosmetics.
Properties relevant to use:
- The small, slender caryopses (achenes) facilitate standardized germination trials; inflorescence structure enables controlled seed yield assessments. In papermaking, culm anatomy suggests short, mixed fiber lengths when mechanically processed.
Standards and regulation:
- Seed lot purity and viability may be assessed according to national seed-testing rules (e.g., AOSA/ISTA methods), though no product-specific ISO/ASTM/EN standards are documented for Poa nemoralis.
Sustainability and sourcing:
- Wild-collected seed or cultivated production in temperate grasslands and woodland edges; no quantitative sustainability or certification data reported in scientific literature.
Synonyms Top
| Scientific name | Authority | First published in |
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| Agrestis alba | Lunell | Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 216 (1915) |
| Agrostis aristata | Sincl. ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 39 (1840) |
| Agrostis conferta | Willd. ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 40 (1840) |
| Agrostis cremenica | Besser ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 39 (1840) |
| Agrostis disticha | Schweigg. ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 39 (1840) |
| Agrostis stolonifera f. alba | (L.) Schur | Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 731 1866 |
| Agrostis stolonifera var. alba | (L.) Kuntze | Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 759. 1891 [5 Nov 1891] |
| Agrostis vulgaris var. alba | (L.) Gatt. | Fl. Tennessee 99. 1901 |
| Aira elodes | Brign. | Fasc. Rar. Pl. : 10 (1810) |
| Aira helodes | Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 44 (1840) |
| Aira petraea | Bellardi ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 45 (1840) |
| Catabrosa elodes | Auct. | not _stated. |
| Catabrosa helodes | Roem. & Schult. | Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 696 (1817) |
| Dactylis capitata | Schult. | Mant. 3: 626 (1827) |
| Decandolia alba | Bastard | Essai Fl. Maine et Loire : 29 (1809) |
| Eragrostis tenuis | Steud. | Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 273 (1854) |
| Festuca asperrima | Hornem. ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 628 (1840) |
| Festuca depauperata | Bertol. | Fl. Ital. 1: 620 (1834) |
| Milium album | (L.) Lag. | Elench. Pl. : 10 (1816) |
| Paneion nemorale | Lunell | Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 222 (1915) |
| Poa tormentuosa | Butters & Abbe | Rhodora 49: 14 (1947) |
| Poa acmocalyx | Keng & L.Liu | Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 9(2): 388 (2002) |
| Poa adjarica | (Sommier & Levier) A.P.Khokhr. | Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. , n.s., 97(6): 98 (1993) |
| Poa alexeenkoi | (Tzvelev) Czerep. | Sosud. Rast. SSSR : 374 (1981) |
| Poa angustifolia var. nemoralis | (L.) Huds. | Fl. Angl. ed. 2: 412. 1778 |
| Poa asperula | Steud. | Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 252 (1854) |
| Poa caespitosa | Poir. | Encycl. 5: 73 (1804) |
| Poa cinerea | Vill. | Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 2: 126 (1787) |
| Poa debilis | Thuill. | Fl. Env. Paris , ed. 2: 43 (1799) |
| Poa dubia | Suter | Helvet. Fl. 1: 49 (1802) |
| Poa eligulata | Pavlov | Vestn. Akad. Nauk Kazakhsk. S.S.R. 1: 26 (1949) |
| Poa firma | Wormsk. ex Roem. & Schult. | Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 546 (1817) |
| Poa firmula | Gray | Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 103 (1821 publ. 1822) |
| Poa glauca subsp. glaucantha | (Gaudich.) Lindm. | Bot. Not. 1926: 275 1926 |
| Poa glaucantha | Schleich. ex Gaudin | Alpina 3: 36. 1808 (1808) |
| Poa glaucescens | Roth | Catal. Bot. 3: 15 (1806) |
| Poa gmelinii | Koeler | Descr. Gramin. 161. 1806 (1806) |
| Poa gracilescens | Schrad. | Hort. Gott. : 1 (1809) |
| Poa hypanica | Prokudin | Zhurn. Inst. Bot. Akad. Nauk Ukrayins'k. RSR 20: 197 (1939) |
| Poa juncea | Suter | Helvet. Fl. 1: 46 (1802) |
| Poa juncoides | Gaudin | Alpina 3: 37 (1808) |
| Poa kumgansani | Ohwi | Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 4: 62 (1935) |
| Poa lapponica | Prokudin | Zhurn. Inst. Bot. Akad. Nauk Ukrayins'k. RSR 20: 198 (1939) |
| Poa marginata | Willd. | Enum. Pl. , Suppl.: 6 (1809) |
| Poa montana | All. | Fl. Pedem. 2: 245 1785 |
| Poa muralis | [Honck.] | Verz. Gew. Teutschl. : 226 (1782) |
| Poa nemoralis f. glaucantha | (Gaud.) Ghișa & Beldie | Fl. Republ. Socialist. România 12: 404 (1972) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. alexeenkoi | Tzvelev | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 11: 40 (1974) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. hypanica | (Prokud.) Tzvelev | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 9: 50 (1972) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. lapponica | (Prokud.) Tzvelev | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 9: 50 (1972) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. subpolaris | (Kuvaev) Tzvelev | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 32: 182 (2000) |
| Poa nemoralis var. acuta | Trab. | Fl. Algérie Monocot.: 207. 1895 |
| Poa nemoralis var. adjarica | Sommier & Levier | Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 16: 453 1900 |
| Poa nemoralis var. agrostoides | Asch. & Graebn. | Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2(1): 409. 1900 |
| Poa nemoralis var. alpina | Godr. | Fl. France 3: 541. 1856 |
| Poa nemoralis var. angustifolia | Parn. | Grass. Scotland 79. 1842 |
| Poa nemoralis var. balbisii | (Balb.) Fiori | Fl. Italia 1: 87 1896 |
| Poa nemoralis var. coarctata | (Gaudich.) Gaudich. | Agrost. Helv. 1: 185 1811 |
| Poa nemoralis var. firmula | Gaudich. | Agrost. Helv. 1: 181 1811 |
| Poa nemoralis var. glaucantha | (Gaudich.) Rchb. | Fl. Germ. Excurs. 1: 47 1830 |
| Poa nemoralis var. montana | (All.) Gaudich. | Alpina 3: 27 1808 |
| Poa nemoralis var. parca | N.R.Cui | Acta Bot. Boreal.-Occid. Sin. 7(2): 103 (1987) |
| Poa nemoralis var. rigidula | Mert. & W.D.J.Koch | Deutschl. Fl. ed. 3, 1: 617. 1823 |
| Poa nemoralis var. tenella | Rchb. | Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 1: t. 86. 1834 |
| Poa nemoralis var. vulgaris | Gaudich. | Agrost. Helv. 1: 179 1811 |
| Poa parnellii | Bab. | Man. Brit. Bot. : 368 (1843) |
| Poa pilipes | Keng ex Shan Chen | Fl. Intramongolica , ed. 2, 5: 594 (1994) |
| Poa polymorpha | Wibel | Prim. Fl. Werth. : 113 (1799) |
| Poa pratensis var. fagetorum | Rech. & T.C.Scheff. | Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 69: 546 1939 |
| Poa pseudocaesia | Schur | Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 772 (1866) |
| Poa pyramidalis | [Clairv.] | Man. Herbor. Suisse : 19 (1811) |
| Poa rariflora | Desf. | Tabl. École Bot. , ed. 3: 387 (1829) |
| Poa recta | Willd. ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 2: 362 (1841) |
| Poa salebrosa | Panz. ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 2: 362 (1841) |
| Poa scheuchzeri | Suter | Helvet. Fl. 1: 50 (1802) |
| Poa scopulorum | Butters & Abbe | Rhodora 49: 16 (1947) |
| Poa setifolia | Zett. | Pl. Vasc. Pyr. : 290 (1847) |
| Poa subpolaris | Kuvaev | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 24: 18 (1987) |
| Poa tenuis | [Clairv.] | Man. Herbor. Suisse : 18 (1811) |
| Poa tenuis | Ell. | Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 156 (1816) |
| Poa variegata | Host ex Kunth | Enum. Pl. 1: 354 (1833) |
| Vilfa alba | P.Beauv. | Ess. Agrostogr. : 16 (1812) |
| Vilfa neglecta | Beauv. ex Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 2: 767 (1841) |
| Agrostis alba | L. | Sp. Pl. : 63 (1753) |
| Agrostis alba var. alba | Scribn. | Grasses Tennessee pt. 2, 74. 1894 |
| Agrostis stolonifera f. alba | Neinshaus | Fl. Ingr. 459 1878 |
| Aira helodec | Steud. | Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 44 (1840) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. coarctata | (Hall.f. ex Gaudin) Gaudin | Fl. Helv. 1: 241 1828 |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. balbisii | (Balb.) Hack. | Prodr. Fl. Corse 1: 137 1910 |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. firmula | (Hall.f. ex Gaudin) Gaudin | Fl. Helv. 1: 239 1828 |
| Poa nemoralis var. coarctata | (Hall.f. ex Gaudin) Rchb. | Agrostogr. Germ. 36, pl. 86, f. 1642 1834 |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. parca | (N.R.Cui) D.F.Cui | Fl. Xinjiang. 6: 106 1996 |
| Poa pratensis var. cinerea | (Vill.) Mathieu | Fl. Gén. Belgique 1: 615 1853 |
| Poa nemoralis f. tenella | (Rchb.) Maire | Fl. Afrique N. 3: 93 1955 |
| Poa lapponica subsp. acmocalyx | (Keng & L.Liu) Olonova & G.H.Zhu | Fl. China 22: 300 (2006) |
| Poa lapponica subsp. pilipes | (Keng ex Shan Chen) Olonova & G.H.Zhu | Fl. China 22: 300 (2006) |
| Poa nemoralis var. loiseaui | Portal | Poa France Belgique Suisse : 125 (2005) |
| Poa nemoralis var. polyclada | Portal & Loiseau | Poa France Belgique Suisse : 129 (2005) |
| Poa nemoralis var. popovii | Tzvelev | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 41: 23 (2009) |
| Poa nemoralis var. zhitomirica | Tzvelev | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 41: 23 (2009) |
| Poa lapponica var. turiensis | Tzvelev | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 41: 29 (2009) |
| Poa nemoralis var. rigidior | Hack. | Prodr. Fl. Corse 1: 140 (1910) |
| Poa balfourii | auct. | |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. montana | (Gaudin) Gaudin | Fl. Helv. 1: 239 (1828) |
| Poa carpatica subsp. supramontana | Bernátová, Májovský, Kliment & Topercer | Biologia (Bratislava) 61: 390 (2006) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. hylaea | Galanin | Fl. Daurii 2: 104 (2009) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. juncoides | (Gaudin) Rouy | Consp. Fl. France : 292 (1927) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. parnellii | (Bab.) Nyman | Consp. Fl. Eur. : 834 (1882) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. uniflora | (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) Schübl. & G.Martens | Fl. Würtemberg : 76 (1834) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. debilis | (Thuill.) Rouy | Consp. Fl. France : 292 (1927) |
| Poa nemoralis subsp. caespitosa | (Poir.) Rouy | Consp. Fl. France : 292 (1927) |
| Milium vulgare var. album | (L.) Mérat | Nouv. Fl. Env. Paris : 26 (1812) |
| Poa nemoralis var. spongifera | Lej. | Rev. Fl. Spa : 19 (1825) |
| Poa nemoralis var. vivipara | Wimm. & Grab. | Fl. Siles. 1: 79 (1827) |
| Poa nemoralis var. schoenosperma | Ducommun | Taschenb. Schweiz. Bot. : 867 (1869) |
| Poa nemoralis var. glaucescens | G.Mey. | Chloris Han. : 633 (1836) |
| Poa nemoralis var. depauperata | (Bertol.) Rouy | Rev. Bot. Syst. Géogr. Bot. 1: 141 (1904) |
| Poa nemoralis var. miboroides | Asch. & Graebn. | Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2(1): 408 (1900) |
| Poa nemoralis var. albocaulis | Plues | Brit. Grass. : 281 (1867) |
| Poa angustifolia var. cinerea | (Vill.) Mérat | Nouv. Fl. Env. Paris : 37 (1812) |
| Poa nemoralis var. miliacea | (DC.) Godr. | Fl. France Corse 3: 541 (1856) |
| Poa nemoralis var. atrovirens | Pauquy | Statist. Bot. Somme : 480 (1831) |
| Poa nemoralis var. scheuchzeri | (Suter) Beck | Fl. Nieder-Österreich : 86 (1890) |
| Poa nemoralis var. pluriflora | Coss. & Germ. | Fl. Descr. Anal. Paris 2: 643 (1845) |
| Poa nemoralis var. kumgansanii | (Ohwi) H.S.Kim | Fl. Coreana 7: 167 (1976) |
| Poa serotina var. nemoralis | (L.) Link | Hort. Reg. Bot. Berol. 1: 180 (1827) |
| Poa glauca var. debilis | (Thuill.) DC. | Fl. Franç. , éd. 3, 6: 273 (1815) |
| Poa nemoralis var. micrantha | Hartm. | Handb. Skand. Fl. , ed. 2: 30 (1832) |
| Poa nemoralis var. pocutica | Zapał. | Consp. Fl. Gallic. Crit. 1: 49 (1906) |
| Poa nemoralis var. umbrosa | Čelak. | Prodr. Fl. Böhmen : 46 (1867) |
| Poa nemoralis var. divaricata | Syme | Engl. Bot. , ed. 3B, 11: 124 (1873) |
| Poa nemoralis var. elatior | Plues | Brit. Grass. : 281 (1867) |
| Poa nemoralis var. major | Roth | Tent. Fl. Germ. 2(1): 103 (1789) |
| Poa nemoralis var. pallida | Lange | Consp. Fl. Groenland. 3: 175 (1880) |
| Poa nemoralis var. rariflora | P.Fourn. | Fl. Compl. Plaine Franç. : 590 (1928) |
| Poa nemoralis var. linnaei | Stapf | Fl. Brit. India 7: 341 (1896) |
| Poa nemoralis var. sempervirens | Plues | Brit. Grass. : 281 (1867) |
| Poa nemoralis var. oligostachya | Goiran | Mem. Accad. Agric. Verona 52: 174 (1874) |
| Poa nemoralis var. minor | Roth | Tent. Fl. Germ. 2(1): 103 (1789) |
| Poa nemoralis var. bistricensis | Zapał. | Kosmos (Lvov) 35: 782 (1910) |
| Poa nemoralis f. multiflora | Döll | Rhein. Fl. : 90 (1843) |
| Poa coarctata var. montana | (Gaudin) DC. | Fl. Franç. , éd. 3, 6: 273 (1815) |
| Poa nemoralis var. palustris | Wimm. & Grab. | Fl. Siles. 1: 79 (1827) |
| Poa nemoralis var. marginata | Rchb. | Fl. Germ. Excurs. : 47 (1830) |
| Poa glauca var. montana | (Gaudin) DC. | Fl. Franç. , éd. 3, 6: 273 (1815) |
| Poa nemoralis f. colorata | Lindm. | Bot. Not. 1926: 274 (1926) |
| Poa nemoralis prol. caespitosa | (Poir.) Rouy | Fl. France 14: 274 (1913) |
| Poa nemoralis prol. debilis | (Thuill.) Rouy | Fl. France 14: 273 (1913) |
| Poa nemoralis var. carpatica | V.Jirásek | Veda Prír. 15: 208 (1934) |
Common names Top
Add a new one! Suggest a correction!| Language | Common/alternative name |
|---|---|
| English | wood bluegrass |
| Arabic | قبأ الغابات |
| Belarusian | Метлюжок баравы |
| Bulgarian | горска ливадина |
| Catalan | pâturin des bois |
| Czech | lipnice hajní |
| Welsh | gweunwellt y coed |
| Danish | lund-rapgræs |
| German | hain-rispengras |
| German | pâturin des bois |
| Estonian | salunurmikas |
| Persian | چمن جنگلی |
| Finnish | lehtonurmikka |
| French | pâturin des bois |
| Upper Sorbian | Ćeńka lipnica |
| Icelandic | kjarrsveifgras |
| Lithuanian | pâturin des bois |
| Lithuanian | miškinė miglė |
| Norwegian Bokmål | lundrapp |
| Dutch | schaduwgras |
| Dutch | bosbeemdgras |
| Polish | wiechlina gajowa |
| Russian | Мятлик боровой |
| Russian | Мятлик дубравный |
| Russian | Мятлик лесной |
| Swedish | lundgröe |
| Swedish | pâturin des bois |
| Ukrainian | Тонконіг дібровний |
| Chinese | 林地早熟禾 |
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Links to other databases Top
Suggest others/fix!| Database | ID/link to page |
|---|---|
| World Flora Online | wfo-0000893068 |
| Canadensys | 7886 |
| USDA Plants | PONE |
| Tropicos | 25509897 |
| INPN | 114297 |
| Flora of Italy | 11358 |
| KEW | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:320039-2 |
| The Plant List | kew-436600 |
| Open Tree Of Life | 814183 |
| NCBI Taxonomy | 29659 |
| NBN Atlas | NBNSYS0000002550 |
| Nature Serve | 2.902879 |
| IPNI | 320039-2 |
| iNaturalist | 78649 |
| GBIF | 2704300 |
| Freebase | /m/025ymsq |
| WisFlora | 4544 |
| EPPO | POANE |
| EOL | 1114028 |
| Elurikkus | 6403 |
| Calflora (Californian flora) | 6681 |
| USDA GRIN | 28982 |
| Wikipedia | Poa_nemoralis |
| Plantarium | 28931 |
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