Turf characteristics of wild Poa poiphagorum and its application in Tibet

The comprehensive evaluation system of turf quality was used to evaluate the turf characteristics of wild Poa poiphagorum under the natural and artificial environments for defining the usability of this turf grass. This study showed that the turf texture, height, persistence, intensity and speed of turf establishment performed well, and the turf color was not bad, but the turf density, uniformity, biomass was poor. Optimal cultivation and management measures or breeding methods would benefit the application of wild P. poiphagorum. This study also suggested that the P. poiphagorum was better used to establish the conservation erosion than to establish the landscape turf.