Description
Bluegrass (scientific name: Poa annua L.) is an annual or winter grass plant in the family Poa family and the genus Poa. The culms are upright or inclined, soft, up to 30 cm high, smooth and hairless. The sheath is slightly flattened, the leaves are flat or folded in half, soft in texture, often with horizontal veins, the tip is sharp and sharp, and the edges are slightly rough. Panicles are broadly ovate, spikelets are ovate, with small flowers, green; glumes are thin, lemmas are ovoid, apex and margin are broadly membranous, anthers are yellow, caryopsis fusiform, flowering from April to May, 6-7 Month result.
Distributed in North and South provinces of China: Jiangsu, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Henan, Shandong, Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. It is distributed in Europe, Asia and North America. It grows on the plains and hills of 100-4800 meters above sea level on the roadside grass, field ditches or shady waste slope wetlands.
Bluegrass has blood sugar lowering, and its action characteristics are similar to insulin.
