Festuca viviparoidea subsp. krajinae

Pavlick
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 437.
Please click on the illustration for a higher resolution version.
Illustrator: Cindy Roché

Copyright: Utah State University

Plants loosely cespitose. Culms usually glabrous and smooth throughout, rarely sparsely puberulent near the inflorescence. Sheaths brownish, slowly shredding into fibers; abaxial sclerenchyma strands about as wide as the adjacent veins, less than 2 times as wide as high. Glumes and lemmas puberulent throughout or only near the apices. 2n = 56.

Discussion

Festuca viviparoidea subsp. krajinae grows in alpine sites of the western cordillera, from southern Alaska and the Yukon Territory through British Columbia to southwestern Alberta.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
Stephen J. Darbyshire +  and Leon E. Pavlickf +
Pavlick +
Mont. +, Alaska +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Greenland +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.W.T. +, Nunavut +, Que. +, Yukon +  and Wyo. +
Festuca vivipara subsp. glabra +
Festuca viviparoidea subsp. krajinae +
Festuca viviparoidea +
subspecies +