Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection
- Herbarium
- The New York Botanical Garden
- Accession
- 04229082
- Filed as
- Poa nemoralis L.
- Det. by
- D. E. Atha 2019-01-01
- Collected
- D. E. Atha 2017-08-05
- Origin
- US
- 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 125 botanical countries
Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is., Great Britain, Aleutian Is.. 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 1,965 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -12.9 °C | -6.2 °C | -1.0 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 20.3 °C | 23.4 °C | 26.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 532 mm | 670 mm | 1,179 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 83 mm | 113 mm | 223 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,965 research-grade observations of Poa nemoralis 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 149 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.
- Agrestis alba (L.) Lunell
- Agrostis alba L.
- Agrostis alba f. alba
- Agrostis alba var. alba
- Agrostis aristata Sinclair ex Steud.
- Agrostis conferta Willd. ex Steud.
- Agrostis cremenica Besser ex Steud.
- Agrostis disticha Schweigg. ex Steud.
- Agrostis stolonifera f. alba (L.) Schur
- Agrostis stolonifera f. alba Neinshaus
- Agrostis stolonifera var. alba (L.) Lilj.
- Agrostis vulgaris var. alba (L.) Gatt.
- Aira elodes Brign.
- Aira helodec Steud.
- Aira helodes Steud.
- Aira petraea Bellardi ex Steud.
- Catabrosa elodes (Brign.) Roem. & Schult.
- Catabrosa helodes Roem. & Schult.
- Decandolia alba (L.) T.Bastard
- Eragrostis tenuis Steud.
- Festuca asperrima Hornem. ex Steud.
- Festuca depauperata Bertol.
- Milium album (L.) Lag.
- Milium vulgare var. album (L.) Mérat
and 125 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.