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Poa pratensis, commonly known as Kentucky bluegrass (or blue grass), smooth meadow-grass, or common meadow-grass, is a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco.
"Bluegrass" is a common name given in the United States for grass of the Poa genus, the most famous being the Kentucky bluegrass. [2] Despite its name, Kentucky bluegrass is native to Europe and was likely introduced around 1600. [3] [4]
Henry Clay came to Lexington, Kentucky from Virginia in 1797. In 1804, he began buying land for the plantation outside the city's limits. He eventually became a major planter who enslaved 60 people and owned over 600 acres (240 ha). Among the slaves were Aaron Dupuy and Charlotte Dupuy as well as their children Charles and Mary Ann Dupuy.
Its destruction was so rapid and complete, that mid-20th century ecologists mistook the successional state of the Bluegrass as its natural condition. Sun-loving species such as hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), black cherry (Prunus serotina), black walnut (Juglans nigra), and white ash (Fraxinus americana) now dominate much of the Bluegrass region.
Blue Grass, Iowa, a city in the United States; Blue Grass, Minnesota, an unincorporated settlement in the United States; Blue Grass, Virginia, an unincorporated settlement in the United States; Bluegrass region, a geographic region in the US state of Kentucky; Blue Grass Airport, an airport in Fayette county, Kentucky
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Poa arachnifera, the Texas bluegrass, is a species of grass. It is a dioecious perennial plant, native to the southern Great Plains of the United States . [ 1 ]
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [5] [6] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west.