Poa 



Festuceae 



107 



50 



Map 152 



Poa trivialis L. 



50 



Map 153 



Poa paludigena Fern & Wiec 



50 



Map 154 



Poa palustris L. 



8. Poa paludigena Fern. & Wieg. (Rhodora 20: 126. 1918.) (Poa 

 leptocoma Trin. of Deam, Grasses of Ind.) Map 153. Only a few specimens 

 of this rare grass have been found, and in widely separated counties. In 

 Lagrange County it grew in tussocks of sphagnum about tamarack and in 

 Dubois County it grew in a swamp in sphagnum about Alnus rugosa. 



N. Y., Mich., and Wis., southw. to Pa., Ind. and 111. 



9. Poa palustris L. (Poa triflora Gilib. of Gray, Man., ed. 7 and Britton 

 and Brown, Illus. Flora, ed. 2.) Fowl Bluegrass. Map 154. An infrequent 

 grass in the lake area in marshes and in wet prairies. 



Newf. and Que., southw. to Va., Ind., Mo., N. Mex., and Calif. ; Eurasia. 



10. Poa pratensis L. Kentucky Bluegrass. Map 155. Frequent to 

 common in all of the limestone areas of the state and rare or absent from 

 the areas of acid soil. It is our principal pasture grass and is found almost 

 everywhere, often as a weed in gardens. This species is here regarded as a 

 native and by others as introduced into Indiana. See the discussion in 

 Deam's Grasses of Indiana. 



Native in northern N. A. and introduced from Eu. ; throughout the 

 U. S. except in the arid regions. 



11. Poa sylvestris Gray. Map 156. This is strictly a woodland species 

 and is infrequent to frequent throughout the state. It is found in moist 

 soil and prefers beech and sugar maple woods, but it is found also in other 

 types of woodland. 



N. Y. to Wis., southw. to Fla. and Tex. 



12. Poa Wolfii Scribn. Wolf's Poa. Map 157. I found this species in 

 Jay County and Miss Madge McKee found it in a mesophytic forest along 

 the Iroquois River in Newton County. In 1937 it was found by J. E. 

 Potzger in Grant County. 



Ohio to Minn, and Mo. 



