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Cusick's Bluegrass
Poa cusickii
  
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About Cusick's Bluegrass (Poa cusickii) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Poa cusickii is a species of grass known by the common name Cusick's bluegrass. It is native to western North America from Yukon to Colorado to eastern California, where it grows in many types of habitat, including high mountain meadows and slopes, sagebrush scrub, and forests. It is a perennial grass growing dense, sometimes large, clumps up to about 60 centimeters in maximum height. The narrow leaves are firm and sometimes rolled along the edges. The longest leaves are located around the middle of the stem. The flower cluster is a dense, narrow series of overlapping branches bearing up to 100 spikelets in total. The grass is dioecious, with male and female individuals producing different types of flowers in their flower clusters. The plant often reproduces vegetatively via tillers, or via apomixis with unfertilized seeds, and some populations are made up only of female individuals. One subspecies, ssp. purpurascens, is all female.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Grasses

Flower Color
Flower Color
Brown

Wildlife Supported
 


 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 17 likely * ) SHOW ALL
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Hesperia juba Image
Juba Skipper Hesperia jubaHesperia juba
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Coenonympha tullia Image
Common Ringlet Coenonympha tulliaCoenonympha tullia
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Cercyonis sthenele Image
Great Basin Wood-Nymph Cercyonis stheneleCercyonis sthenele
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Cercyonis pegala Image
Common Wood Nymph Cercyonis pegalaCercyonis pegala
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Polites themistocles Image
Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistoclesPolites themistocles
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Amblyscirtes vialis Image
Common Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes vialisAmblyscirtes vialis
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Cercyonis oetus Image
Small Wood-Nymph Cercyonis oetusCercyonis oetus

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun, Part Shade

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Meadows

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 6.0" - 120.2", Summer Precipitation: 0.26" - 4.07", Coldest Month: 18.4" - 51.0", Hottest Month: 37.6" - 77.1", Humidity: 0.57" - 28.34", Elevation: 46" - 13654"


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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