Festuca brachyphylla subsp. brachyphylla

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 428.
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Culms usually more than twice as long as the vegetative shoot leaves. Spikelets 4.4-7(8.5) mm. Lemmas (3)3.5-4.5(6) mm, awns (0.8)2-3(3.5) mm. 2n = 42, 44.

Discussion

Festuca brachyphylla subsp. brachyphylla is circumpolar in its distribution. In the Flora region, it extends from Alaska to Newfoundland, south in the mountains to Washington in the west and in the high peaks of the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Quebec and New England in the east.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Stephen J. Darbyshire +  and Leon E. Pavlickf +
Schult. & Schult. f. +
Maine +, Oreg. +, Colo. +, N.Mex. +, Wash. +, Utah +, Calif. +, Minn. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Vt. +, Wyo. +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Greenland +, Man. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.S. +, N.W.T. +, Nunavut +, Ont. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Ariz. +, Alaska +  and Nev. +
Festuca ovina var. brevifolia +  and Festuca ovina var. brachyphylla +
Festuca brachyphylla subsp. brachyphylla +
Festuca brachyphylla +
subspecies +