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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(First update on July 12 2010. Last on October 25 2011)

Kentucky bluegrass
Poa pratensis L. [Poaceae]

Nagahagusa (ナガハグサ, 長葉草)

Life form: perennial grass
Distribution: common in the temperate Northern Hemisphere (extotic to Japan - controversial)
Habitat: grasslands - roadsides (use for creating lawns in Hokkoaido)
Belowground: creeping with runners (→ P. annua, without runners)


Poa pratensis in Hokkaido

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[1] a lawn dominated by P. pratensis. [2] the ground surface. [1/2] At a roadside on June 9 2010 at N27/E2, East Ward, Sapporo. [3/4] in the Hokkaido University Campus on June 21 2011.


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