| Scientific Name: | Poa trivialis |
| Common Name: | rough bluegrass, rough-stalked meadow grass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x < 0.1m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Vase |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green, Lawn - sports field |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Green-yellow, Green, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Habit tufted; rhizomes absent; stolons thin, rooting at nodes; culm and sheath flattened and rough; leaf vernation folded, blade rough, glossy, bright green with glassy lower surface, V-shaped to flat, 1-4mm wide, tapering to a boat-shaped tip; auricles absent, margin entire to ciliate towards apex; ligules mostly 2-4mm, yellow-green, acute to truncate. Field ID terms: boat tip, summer stress vs. winter vibrant, puffy/ elevated crowns, reddish sheath. | |