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Fig. 549. Poa pringlei Scribn. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 10 : 31. 

 1883. Pringle's Blue-grass. — A densely tufted perennial from 

 a creeping rootstock, with rather firm, spreading, smooth, narrow 

 leaves and slender, scape-like culms 1 to 1.5 dm. high. Panicles 

 contracted, few-flowered, usually about 2 cm. long. Spikelets 

 3- to 5-flowered, 6 to 8 mm. long. — Moist places, high mountains, 

 California and (?) Oregon and Washington. August, September. 



