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The following species in the grass genus Festuca, the fescues, are accepted by Plants of the World Online as of 2024. [1] This genus together with the ryegrass genus Lolium form the Festuca–Lolium complex known for its frequent hybridization, and which is further complicated by the presence of a fine-leaved fescue clade within Festuca that appears to be sister to a clade consisting of Lolium ...
Festuca filiformis, known by the common names fine-leaf sheep fescue, fine-leaved sheep's-fescue, hair fescue, and slender fescue, is a species of grass. It is native to Europe, and it is widespread elsewhere as an introduced species and often a weed. [1] [2]
Festuca (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of 10–200 cm (4–79 in) and a cosmopolitan distribution , occurring on every continent except Antarctica . [ 2 ]
Festuca thurberi is a species of grass known by the common name Thurber's fescue. It is native to a section of the western United States encompassing New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. It probably also occurs in parts of Arizona. [1] This perennial grass forms a large, dense tuft of stout stems which may just exceed one meter in maximum ...
Lower glumes are 2.5 to 3.5 millimetres (0.098 to 0.138 in). The upper glumes are slightly longer or as long and are 3-veined. The upper glumes are slightly longer or as long and are 3-veined. The pair of bracts surround the floret are the lemma and palea, just as long as the upper glume if not slightly longer.
Lolium arundinaceum, tall fescue is a cool-season perennial C 3 species of grass that is native to Europe and introduced to California. It occurs on woodland margins, in grassland and in coastal marshes.
First described in 1994, [2] Epichloë festucae is a sister lineage to Epichloë amarillans, Epichloë baconii, Epichloë mollis and Epichloë stromatolonga. Epichloë festucae is found across North America, where it lives in the grass species Bromus kalmii and Elymus spp. (including Elymus patula ).
Festuca longifolia, known in Britain and Ireland as blue fescue, [2] is a species of grass which is native to Channel Islands and Southern Devon. [3] It was described by Auquier in 1977. [ 4 ]