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Fig. 272. Poa alpina L. Mountain Spear-grass. A slender 

 or stout, c:espitose, erect perennial 0.5 to 3 (usually 1.5) dm. high, 

 with rather hroad, flat leaves, and spreading pyramidal panicles 

 of comparatively large spikelets. Edges of hrooks, open grassy 

 mountain slopes, canyons, etc., Newfoundland and Quebec to 

 Hudson Bay and Alaska, south in the mountains to Colorado (alt. 

 3,600 m.), Utah and California. [Widely distributed, arctic and 

 subalpine.] June-Angust. 



