Biology:Festuca octoflora

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Festuca octoflora
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Festuca
Species:
F. octoflora
Binomial name
Festuca octoflora
Walter
Synonyms
  • Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb.

Festuca octoflora, also known as Vulpia octoflora,[1][2] 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] Other common names include sixweeks fescue,[4] six-weeks fescue, pullout grass,[4] eight-flower six-weeks grass,[4] or eight-flowered fescue.[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.[3]

Varieties

Festuca octoflora/Vulpia octoflora varieties include:

  • Vulpia octoflora var. glauca [7] (AKA Festuca octoflora Walter var. tenella, Festuca gracilenta Buckley, Festuca tenella Willd., and Vulpia octoflora var. tenella[8])
  • Vulpia octoflora var. hirtella [9]
  • Vulpia octoflora var. octoflora [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Festuca octoflora Walter GRIN-Global". https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=16686. 
  2. ↑ Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 314
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 285
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Vulpia octoflora". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=VUOC. Retrieved 2015-08-07. 
  5. ↑ {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Vulpia octoflora | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?41940 | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 2010-03-09 }}
  6. ↑ http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9330,9340 Jepson . accessed 10 May 2010
  7. ↑ {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Vulpia octoflora var. glauca | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 10 May 2010 }}
  8. ↑ Howard, Janet L. (2006), Vulpia octoflora, US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (USFS), Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory, https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/graminoid/vuloct/all.html, retrieved 2010-03-09 
  9. ↑ {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Vulpia octoflora var. hirtella | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 10 May 2010 }}
  10. ↑ {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Vulpia octoflora var. octoflora | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 10 May 2010 }}

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