Scientific Name: Poa supina
Common Name: supina bluegrass
Family Name: Poaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like)
Mature Size: x (height x width)
Habit:
Form: Creeping / Mat-like
Texture:
Landscape Uses: Golf green, Lawn - sports field
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Grass-like, Alternate, Basal, Linear, Entire
Flowers: Spikelet, Dark-red
Fruit: Grain (caryopsis), Brown
Key ID Features:
Thatchy habit with tufted or isolated culms 0.5-0.7mm wide; rhizomes present; +/- stolons; leaf vernation folded, blades 2-3mm wide, tip boat-shaped, tip rounded; auricles absent; ligule 0.6-1.5mm; sheath thin, smooth, 1.5 to 5 x longer than blade.