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|accepted_name=Poa paludigena
|accepted_authority=Fernald & Wiegand
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|common_names=Eastern bog bluegrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Poa;Poa subg. Poa;Poa sect. Oreinos;Poa paludigena
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Poa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Poa subg. Poa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Poa sect. Oreinos]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Poa paludigena]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 572
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; usually pale green; loosely tufted, slender, usually neither stoloniferous nor rhizomatous, occasionally with short, slender rhizomes. <b>Basal</b> branching mostly extravaginal. <b>Culms</b> 10-55 cm, very slender, weak. <b>Sheaths</b> closed for 1/4 - 3/5 their length, terete, smooth or sparsely scabrous, margins not ciliate; ligules 0.5-2 mm, smooth or sparsely scabrous, truncate; blades 0.8-2 mm wide, flat, thin, soft, apices narrowly prow-shaped. <b>Panicles</b> 3-8(12) cm, lax, open, sparse; nodes with 1-2(3) branches; branches (2)3-7 cm, spreading to reflexed, capillary, angled, angles scabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> 3.2-5.2 mm, laterally compressed, broadly lanceolate to ovate; florets 2-3(5); rachilla internodes smooth, glabrous. <b>Glumes</b> narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, thin, distinctly keeled, keels scabrous; lower glumes 1-3-veined; upper glumes shorter than or subequal to the adjacent lemmas; calluses sparsely webbed; lemmas 2.5-4 mm, lanceolate, green, distinctly keeled, keels and marginal veins short-villous, extending 2/3 – 4/5 the keel length, lateral veins fairly prominent, intercostal regions glabrous, apices obtuse to broadly acute, white, faintly bronze-colored or not; palea keels scabrous; anthers 0.2-0.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Va.;Minn.;W.Va.;Ohio;N.C.;Mich.;Wis.;N.Y.;Pa.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;N.J.
|discussion=<p><i>Poa paludigena</i> is an inconspicuous species restricted to the northeastern United States. It grows in shady bogs and fens, often underneath other plants. <i>Poa trivialis</i> (p. 568) sometimes grows with <i>P. paludigena</i>; the former has distinctly longer ligules and anthers. Plants from the middle Appalachian Mountains are sometimes confused with <i>P. sylvestris</i> (p. 512). <i>Poa paludigena</i> is generally shorter and more slender, has shorter panicles with only 1-2 branches per node, is glabrous between the lemma veins and on the palea keels, has shorter anthers, and grows in colder habitats.</p>
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|authority=Fernald & Wiegand
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Va.;Minn.;W.Va.;Ohio;N.C.;Mich.;Wis.;N.Y.;Pa.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;N.J.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Poa
|subgenus=Poa subg. Poa
|section=Poa sect. Oreinos
|species=Poa paludigena
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