Poa remota

Poa remota, commonly known as scattered meadow-grass or remote meadow-grass, is a loosely tufted perennial grass in the family Poaceae native to temperate Eurasia, from central and northern Europe across Russia and Siberia to north-east China, where it grows in damp deciduous and mixed woodland, alder swamps, shaded streamsides, and wet meadows. The plant typically reaches 50 to 120 centimetres in height, with slender, smooth, erect culms arising from a short rhizome and forming small bunches rather than dense tussocks. The leaf blades are flat, soft, pale green, 5 to 15 centimetres long and 4 to 10 millimetres wide, with a finely scabrid surface and a long, blunt, membranous ligule 1 to 4 millimetres long that distinguishes it from related Poa species. The inflorescence is a loose, open, pyramidal panicle 15 to 30 centimetres long with widely spreading, slender lower branches arranged in distant whorls. Spikelets are ovate, 4 to 6 millimetres long, with three to five greenish florets. Flowering occurs in early summer.