| Scientific Name: | Poa pratensis |
| Common Name: | Kentucky bluegrass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green, Lawn - sports field |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Green, Purple, Dark-red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Habit thatchy; rhizomes strong and multi branched; stolons absent; leaf vernation folded, blade soft, smooth on both sides, V-shaped to flat, 1-4mm wide, two parallel pale lines on either side of midrib, edges parallel but then tapering to a boat-shaped and rounded tip; auricles absent; ligule 0.2-0.6mm truncate, small trichomes on back; sheath green and smooth, sheath slightly compressed. Field ID terms: boat tip, duller, smooth top. | |