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. ↑ USDA:Vulpia octoflora Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  3. 1 2 3 Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 285
  4. ↑ USDA Forest Service FEIS Retrieved 2010-03-09
  5. ↑ USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network Retrieved 2010-03-09.
  6. ↑ http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9330,9340 Jepson . accessed 10 May 2010
  7. ↑ http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=VUOCG v. glauca; USDA . accessed 10 May 2010
  8. ↑ http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=VUOCH v. hirtella; USDA . accessed 10 May 2010
  9. ↑ http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=VUOCO v. octoflora; USDA . accessed 10 May 2010

See also


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