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Poa is a genus of about 500 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass.
   Bluegrass, which has green leaves, derives its name from the seed heads which are blue when the plant is allowed to grow to its natural height of two to three feet.
   One species, Smooth Meadow-grass Poa pratensis, is the type species of the family Poaceae.
   The genus Poa includes both annual and perennial species. Most are monoecious, but a few are dioecious (separate male and female plants). The leaves are narrow, folded or flat, sometimes bristled, and with the basal sheath flattened or sometimes thickened, with a blunt or hooded apex and membranaceous ligule.

Cultivation and uses

Many of the species are important pasture plants, used extensively by grazing livestock. Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) is the most extensively used cool-season grass used in lawns, sports fields, and golf courses in the United States. Annual bluegrass (Poa annua) can sometimes be considered a weed.
Since the 1950s/early 1960s 90 percent of the seed has been produced on farms in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

Insect foodplant

Lepidoptera whose caterpillars feed on Poa include:

Hobomok Skipper, Poanes hobomok
Zabulon Skipper, Poanes zabulon

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