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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Festuca rubra   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Festuca rubra ssp. rubra   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDING Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24 (2007)

Festuca rubra ssp. rubra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-18-005:

Festuca rubra   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Festuca rubra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Festuca rubra

 

COMMON NAME:
Red Fescue


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Festuca rubra   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Festuca rubra ssp. rubra   FAMILY Poaceae

INCLUDING Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24
Festuca rubra ssp. rubra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-18-005:
Festuca rubra   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Festuca rubra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Festuca rubra

 

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4284

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: dune grasslands, salt scrub, and borders of oligohaline to mesohaline marshes in the Coastal Plain (where presumably native), in middle- to high-elevation forests, rocky woodlands, barrens, grassy balds, and bogs in the Mountains (where also presumably native), and in fields, pastures, weedy clearings, and other open, disturbed habitats (where presumably introduced from Eurasia, adventive from native populations, or some complex mix of situations), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolina Mountains (non-native elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Common in SC Mountains, uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Densely cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
3 stamens

Inflorescence a panicle

FRUIT:

 

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