Festuca ovina L.
POACEAE
- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Festuca ovina L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 73 (1753)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Sheep fescue
English name: ovina English name: sheep fescue
Spanish name: cañuela de oveja
French name: fétuque ovine
Italian name: Festuca ovina
German name: Schafschwingel
Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Festuca ovina L. ssp. alaskana Holmen
2) Festuca ovina L. ssp. beckeri Hack.
3) Festuca ovina L. ssp. brevifolia (S. Watson) Hack. p.p.
4) Festuca ovina L. ssp. novae-zelandiae Hack.
5) Festuca ovina L. ssp. tenuifolia (Sibth.) Peterm.
6) Festuca ovina L. var. alaskana (Holmen) S.L. Welsh
7) Festuca ovina L. var. alpina (Gaudin) W.D.J. Koch
8) Festuca ovina L. var. arizonica (Vasey) Hack. ex Veal
9) Festuca ovina L. var. borealis Lange
10) Festuca ovina L. var. brachyphylla (Schult. ex Schult. & Schult. f.) Piper ex Hitchc.
11) Festuca ovina L. var. brevifolia auct. p.p.
12) Festuca ovina L. var. brevifolia S. Watson p.p.
13) Festuca ovina L. var. capillata (Lam.) Alef.
14) Festuca ovina L. var. columbiana Beal
15) Festuca ovina L. var. duriuscula auct. non (L.) W.D.J. Koch
16) Festuca ovina L. var. gallica (Hack.) St.-Yves ex Litard.
17) Festuca ovina L. var. glauca (Lam.) W.D.J. Koch
18) Festuca ovina L. var. ingrata Hack. ex Beal
19) Festuca ovina L. var. minutiflora (Rydb.) J.T. Howell
20) Festuca ovina L. var. oregona Hack. ex Beal
21) Festuca ovina L. var. polyphylla Vasey ex Beal
22) Festuca ovina L. var. purpusiana St.-Yves
23) Festuca ovina L. var. rydbergii St.-Yves
24) Festuca ovina L. var. saximontana (Rydb.) Gleason
25) Festuca ovina L. var. supina (Schur) Hack.
26) Festuca ovina L. var. tenuifolia (Sibth.) Sm.
27) Festuca ovina L. var. vivipara L.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Festuca
Species:
Page counter: 3934 ( AVG: 221.88 / 290.79 )
Gallery:
Festuca ovina
Gordon D. Merrick - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Festuca ovina
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Festuca ovina
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 ovina
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image
Festuca ovina
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
Festuca ovina
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Festuca ovina
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: 271.
Festuca ovina
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de
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Festuca ovina
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Festuca ovina
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
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Map for Festuca ovina L.
(*) 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 ovina L. ssp. alaskana Holmen [95]
2) Festuca ovina L. ssp. beckeri Hack. [143]
3) Festuca ovina L. ssp. brevifolia (S. Watson) Hack. p.p. [93]
4) Festuca ovina L. var. alaskana (Holmen) S.L. Welsh [141]
5) Festuca ovina L. var. arizonica (Vasey) Hack. ex Veal [93]
6) Festuca ovina L. var. glauca (Lam.) W.D.J. Koch [152]
7) Festuca pacifica Piper [90]
8) Festuca pratensis Huds. [178]
9) Festuca rubra L. ssp. arenicola Alexeev [92]
10) Festuca rubra L. ssp. vallicola (Rydb.) Pavlick [297]
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