Poa bulbosa L.

Taxonomy: Fam. Poaceae// Genus: Poa// Species: Poa bulbosa L.

Determined according to the botanical key provided in Flora Europaea Vol. 5 (Tutin et al., 1980).

Distribution: Native from Europe to Xinjiang, Himalaya and Arabian Peninsula; Macaronesia, North and East Africa, South Africa according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Habitat:  Grasslands, pastures, rocky terrains, river gorges, shrubland, edges and clearings of forests.

Lifeform: Perrenial; hemicryptophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Flowering period: Spring – early summer: APR, MAY, JUN.

Poa bulbosa – habit. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – habit. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – habit. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – flowering stems with panicles. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicles. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicles. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – top of panicle and lateral branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicles branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicles branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicles branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicles branch with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – leaf. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – stem and leaf with ligule. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – stem with lraf and ligule. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – lower part of stems and basal leaves. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – basal leaves. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – stem base. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – stem base and basal leaves. Osogovo, ridge between the gorges of “Kochanska” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – habit. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – panicle branches with spikelets. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – lower part of stems with leaves. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – lower part of plant. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – stem base and basa leaves. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – stem base. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – stem base. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.
Poa bulbosa – stem base with bulbous propagule. Osogovo, ridge between lake “Gradche” River and “Orizarska” River, 07.05.2022. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

References:

Poa bulbosa L. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:320038-2 [Accessed 21.05.2022].

Tutin, T.G., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (1980). Flora Europaea. Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: