Poa colensoi Hook.f. is a plant in the Poaceae family, order Poales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Poa colensoi Hook.f.

Poa colensoi Hook.f.

Poa colensoi, blue tussock, is an endemic cool-season New Zealand Poaceae grass with good potential for high-altitude grazing.

Family
Genus
Poa
Order
Poales
Class
Liliopsida

About Poa colensoi Hook.f.

Poa colensoi Hook.f., commonly known as blue tussock, is a cool-season grass species belonging to the Poaceae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. This species is regarded as the native grass with the highest potential for use in high-altitude livestock grazing systems, due to its good palatability and above-average regrowth rates.

Photo: (c) Krzysztof Golik, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · cc-by-sa

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Liliopsida Poales Poaceae Poa

More from Poaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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