Festuca octoflora

Festuca octoflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Vulpia
Species: V. octoflora
Binomial name
Vulpia octoflora
(Walter) Rydb.

Festuca octoflora (formerly Vulpia octoflora'[1]), also called six-weeks fescue, pullout grass, sixweeks fescue,[2] eight-flower sixweeks grass, eight-flowered fescue; is an annual plant in the grass family (Poaceae).[3] The common name "six week fescue" is because it supplies about 6 weeks of cattle forage after a rain.[3]

Subspecies include Festuca octoflora Walter var. tenella, Festuca gracilenta Buckley, and Festuca tenella Willd..[4]

Range and habitat

This bunchgrass is native to North America occurring across a large part of Canada, in all of the lower 48 contiguous United States, and Baja California of Mexico.[5][6] It grows in open, sunny places between shrubs and in burn areas.[3] It is commonly found in burn areas after a fire.<ref name=MDW

Varieties

'The Vulpia octoflora varieties include:

References

  1. ↑ Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 314
  2. ↑ "Vulpia octoflora". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  3. 1 2 3 Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 285
  4. ↑ Howard, Janet L. (2006). "Vulpia octoflora". Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (USFS), Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. Retrieved 2010-03-09 – via http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/.
  5. ↑ "Vulpia octoflora". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Retrieved 2010-03-09.
  6. ↑ http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9330,9340 Jepson . accessed 10 May 2010
  7. ↑ "Vulpia octoflora var. glauca". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  8. ↑ "Vulpia octoflora var. hirtella". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  9. ↑ "Vulpia octoflora var. octoflora". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Retrieved 10 May 2010.

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