Poa badensisHaenke ex Willd.

Baden's bluegrass

WFO wfo-0000891691 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Poa badensis, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-28 / obs. 82295866
Poa badensis, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. b Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134625911
Poa badensis, photographed by carnifex
fig. c carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18117320
Poa badensis, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. d Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134625934
Poa badensis, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. e Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134625905
Poa badensis, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. f Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82295821
Poa badensis, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. g Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134625856
Poa badensis, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. h Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82295880

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Poa badensis is native: Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Switzerland IranNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSwitzerland
Native distribution of Poa badensis, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Switzerland SWI
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS

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.

Also published as 16 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 alpina subsp. badensis (Haenke ex Willd.) Arcang.
  • Poa alpina var. badensis (Haenke ex Willd.) Griseb.
  • Poa alpina var. collina Wahlenb.
  • Poa alpina var. multiflora Gaudin
  • Poa alpina var. multiflora Gaudin
  • Poa badensis subsp. badensis
  • Poa badensis subsp. multiflora (Gaudin) Rivas Mart.
  • Poa badensis var. imeretica (Sommier & Levier) Tzvelev
  • Poa badensis var. multiflora (Gaudin) Kerguélen
  • Poa badensis var. nabelekii Podp.
  • Poa bulbosa subsp. badensis (Haenke ex Willd.) Beck
  • Poa cenisia var. badensis (Haenke ex Willd.) Rchb.
  • Poa collina Host
  • Poa imeretica Sommier & Levier
  • Poa koeleri DC.
  • Poa thermalis Pers.

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.