Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Festuca occidentalis Hook.


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

Taxon Page:

Name: Festuca occidentalis Hook. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Fl. Bor.-Amer. (Hooker) ii. 249.
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Western fescue
en English name: western fescue

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Festuca ovina L. var. polyphylla Vasey ex Beal


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Festuca occidentalis Hook. var. ingrata (Hack. ex Beal) B. Boivin
2) Festuca occidentalis Hook. var. oregona (Hack.) B. Boivin



TAXONOMY

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


Page counter: 447 ( AVG: 222.97 / 291.998 )



Gallery:

Festuca occidentalis
Festuca occidentalis
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 270.

Festuca occidentalis
Festuca occidentalis
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CA, ID, MI, MT, OR, SD, UT, WA, WI, WY), CAN (AB, BC, ON)

Distributional map for Festuca occidentalis Hook.
Map for Festuca occidentalis Hook.
(*) 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 octoflora Walter [157]
2) Festuca octoflora Walter var. glauca (Nutt.) Fernald [92]
3) Festuca octoflora Walter var. hirtella (Piper) Piper ex Hitchc. [136]
4) Festuca ovina L. ssp. alaskana Holmen [96]
5) Festuca ovina L. ssp. brevifolia (S. Watson) Hack. p.p. [96]
6) Festuca ovina L. var. alpina (Gaudin) W.D.J. Koch [145]
7) Festuca ovina L. var. glauca (Lam.) W.D.J. Koch [152]
8) Festuca pallens Host [496]
9) Festuca pseudodalmatica Krajina ex Domin [339]
10) Festuca rubra L. ssp. fallax (Thuill.) Nyman [406]

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