Plant

Sandburg’s bluegrass, Curly bluegrass

Poa secunda
Plant
Habitat
Weippe Prairie
Conservation
Secure
First Observed
1805-09-22

Specimen label states this grass “most common…[on] plains of Columbia.” This remains true for this major range species.

Journal References

1 journal entry mentions Sandburg’s bluegrass, Curly bluegrass

Jul 24 1806
Clark: July 24, 1806
...Covered with wild rye and a Species of grass resembling the bluegrass, and a mixture of Sweet grass which the Indian plat and ware around their necks for its cent whic...

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