Poa poiformis

Poa poiformis, commonly known as coast tussock-grass or blue tussock-grass, is a densely tufted perennial grass in the Poaceae forming compact clumps 30–80 cm tall. Culms are erect, smooth, and often somewhat glaucous, arising from a knotty crown without rhizomes. Leaves are basal and cauline, with smooth to slightly scabrous sheaths and a short, blunt ligule; blades are narrow, 1–3 mm wide, flat to inrolled, stiff, often blue-green or grey-green and frequently waxy. The inflorescence is an open to somewhat contracted panicle 5–20 cm long with slender, ascending to spreading branches bearing crowded, 3–6-flowered spikelets 4–7 mm long. Glumes are subequal and shorter than the lemmas; lemmas are 3–5 mm long, keeled, pubescent on the lower keel and marginal nerves, and lack awns. The fruit is a small caryopsis. It is native to coastal and subalpine grasslands of southern Australia (including Tasmania) and New Zealand, often dominant on exposed coastal headlands and dunes.