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Cusick's Bluegrass
( Poa cusickii )
Poa cusickii
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About Cusick's Bluegrass (Poa cusickii)
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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
Grasses
Flower Color
Brown
Wildlife Supported
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 17
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Juba Skipper
Hesperia juba
Hesperia juba
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Common Ringlet
Coenonympha tullia
Coenonympha tullia
*
Great Basin Wood-Nymph
Cercyonis sthenele
Cercyonis sthenele
*
Common Wood Nymph
Cercyonis pegala
Cercyonis pegala
*
Tawny-edged Skipper
Polites themistocles
Polites themistocles
*
Common Roadside-Skipper
Amblyscirtes vialis
Amblyscirtes vialis
*
Small Wood-Nymph
Cercyonis oetus
Cercyonis oetus
Landscaping Information
Sun
Full Sun, Part Shade
Natural Setting
Site Type
Meadows
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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Cusick's Bluegrass
Poa cusickii
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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