Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill.


POACEAE Family selection - Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 2: 110 (1787)
Rank: species
See: ► Schedonorus giganteus (L.) Holub

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Giant fescue
en English name: giant fescue
Italian name: Festuca maggiore

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Schedonorus giganteus (L.) Holub
= Bromus giganteus L.
= Lolium giganteum (L.) S.J. Darbyshire



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Festuca
Species:


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Festuca gigantea
Festuca gigantea
Jose Hernandez - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Festuca gigantea
Festuca gigantea
Jose Hernandez - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Festuca gigantea
Festuca gigantea
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Festuca gigantea
Festuca gigantea
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, MI, NY), CAN (ON, QC)

Distributional map for Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill.
Map for Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Festuca glauca Lam., non Vill. [91]
2) Festuca gracilenta Buckley [132]
3) Festuca hallii (Vasey) Piper [333]
4) Festuca heterophylla Lam. [549]
5) Festuca howellii Hack. ex Beal [171]
6) Festuca idahoensis Elmer ssp. idahoensis [302]
7) Festuca lenensis Drobow [319]
8) Festuca microstachys Nutt. var. simulans (Hoover) Hoover [153]
9) Festuca octoflora Walter [152]
10) Festuca ovina L. var. alaskana (Holmen) S.L. Welsh [141]

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