Poa angustifoliaL.

narrow-leaved meadow-grass

WFO wfo-0000891510 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Poa angustifolia, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. a Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-22 / obs. 142090359
Poa angustifolia, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. b Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90043441
Poa angustifolia, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. c Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69914603
Poa angustifolia, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. d Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111371620
Poa angustifolia, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. e Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 88216949
Poa angustifolia, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. f Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161852459
Poa angustifolia, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171542458
Poa angustifolia, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. h Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159147548

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
4292524
Filed as
Poa angustifolia L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 75 botanical countries

Regions where Poa angustifolia is native: Azores, Morocco, Afghanistan, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Cyprus, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Primorye, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine MoroccoAfghanistanAltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChitaCyprusInner MongoliaIranIraqIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusPrimoryeQinghaiTadzhikistanTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaEast HimalayaNepalPakistanWest HimalayaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine AzoresKoreaBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Poa angustifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Chita CTA
Cyprus CYP
Inner Mongolia CHI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Tadzhikistan TZK
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
Azores AZO AFRICA
Morocco MOR

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is., Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 746 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -17.0 °C -10.7 °C -3.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.2 °C 23.5 °C 26.5 °C
Annual rainfall 463 mm 651 mm 764 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 75 mm 106 mm 135 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 746 research-grade observations of Poa angustifolia that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 55 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Poa angustifolia f. collina (Schur) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia f. decipiens Lindm.
  • Poa angustifolia f. filiformis (Zapał.) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia f. glauca (Zapał.) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia f. hirtula (Asch. & Graebn.) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia f. longifolia (Podp.) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia f. longiglumis Lindm.
  • Poa angustifolia f. praesignis (Domin) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia f. puberula (Beck) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia f. pyramidalis (Nyár.) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia f. setacea Holmb.
  • Poa angustifolia f. straminea (Rother) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia subsp. angustifolia
  • Poa angustifolia subsp. brizoides K.Richt.
  • Poa angustifolia subsp. nymanii (Tineo) K.Richt.
  • Poa angustifolia var. angustifolia
  • Poa angustifolia var. minor C.C.Gmel.
  • Poa angustifolia var. obornyana (Podp.) Soó
  • Poa angustifolia var. strigosa (Roth) DC.
  • Poa angustifolia var. violacea Popov
  • Poa brizoides Vill.
  • Poa hamhungensis I.C.Chung
  • Poa nymanni Tineo
  • Poa pratensis f. collina (Schur) Roshev.

and 31 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.