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Rich deciduous or mixed forests and thickets.

When growing in the same forests as P. sylvestris, our other common southern forest understory Poa, P. alsodes matures earlier and has a broader and more diffuse, lax (often nodding) inflorescence; P. sylvestris has the inflorescence stiff and relatively narrow.

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