Category: Festuca

Festuca glauca Vill., Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 2: 99 1787. (Syn: Festuca calcarea Velchev [Invalid]; Festuca calcarea Tausch ex Steud. [Invalid]; Festuca duriuscula var. glauca (Vill.) Bréb.; Festuca glauca var. juncea Wallr.; Festuca strictifolia Opiz; Festuca veneris Gr.Rossi, Foggi & Signorini) ?; . NE. Spain to NW. Italy (as per WCSP); . Festuca glauca, commonly known as blue fescue, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family, Poaceae. It is a commonly cultivated evergreen or semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial. Common names include blue fescue, blue mountain grass, and grey fescue. Originally described by French naturalist Dominique […]

Festuca rubra L., Sp. Pl. 74 1753. (syn: Avena dura Salisb. ……………………………………………………………); . Subarctic & Temp. Northern Hemisphere to Mexico: Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, […]