''Poa alpina'', commonly known as alpine meadow-grass or alpine bluegrass, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

grass Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and spe ...

with a primarily holarctic distribution. It is noted for being

pseudoviviparous In plants, vivipary occurs when seeds or embryos begin to develop before they detach from the parent. Plants such as some Iridaceae and Agavoideae grow cormlets in the axils of their inflorescences. These fall and in favourable circumstances t ...

: in place of seeds, it sometimes reproduces asexually, creating new plantlets in the spikelets.

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Flora of the Holarctic realm Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Pooideae-stub