Poa trivialis L. subsp. trivialis

Spice Inflorescence

Family: GRAMINEAE (POACEAE)

Genus: Poa

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Eurosiberian

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Humid soils.

Characteristics: A Graminea that can reach up to a metre in height, an inhabitant of very wet soils, lives alongside torrents, canals and seawater ponds. Forms a open, pyramidal panicle; spikelets loose which are sometimes tinged with violet. Does not form very dense thatches. Subspecies sylvicola, which can also be found in the Balearic Islands, has a stubbier, more ovoid panicle and a thicker rhizome. Flowers at the end of spring and during the summer.