Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Poaceae/Poacées - Grass Family
Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench [X]
En: purple moorgrass
Fr: molinie bleue
Provincial Status: X [excluded]
Range: Europe; intr. NS, QC-ON.

              [=Aira caerulea L. (basionym)]
              [=Festuca caerulea (L.) DC.]
              [=Melica caerulea (L.) L.]
              [=Poa caerulea (L.) Bernh.]

[Bachelot de la Pylaie reported Molinia caerulea from boggy barrens on the west coast of Nfld. between 1816 and 1820, but neither Fernald nor subsequent explorers have located this species in Nfld. (Fernald 1933:137).]

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