View source for Festuca rubra subsp. fallax

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|accepted_name=Festuca rubra subsp. fallax
|accepted_authority=(Thuill.) Nyman
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|common_names=Flatleaf red fescue;Fétuque trompeuse
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|name=Festuca rubra var. multiflora
|authority=unknown
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|name=Festuca rubra subsp. multiflora
|authority=unknown
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|name=Festuca rubra var. fraterculae
|authority=unknown
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|name=Festuca heteromalla
|authority=unknown
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|name=Festuca diffusa
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Festuca;Festuca subg. Festuca;Festuca sect. Festuca;Festuca rubra;Festuca rubra subsp. fallax
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Festuca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Festuca subg. Festuca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Festuca sect. Festuca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Festuca rubra]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subspecies</small>[[Festuca rubra subsp. fallax]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 415
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose, strongly rhizomatous, stoloniferous, sometimes with solitary culms. <b>Culms</b> 50-90(130) cm. <b>Sheaths</b> of innovations red-brown at the base, scarious, pubescent on the upper parts, shredding into fibers; blades usually flat and 2-7 mm wide, or loosely conduplicate and 0.8-2.5 mm in diameter; abaxial sclerenchyma in 5-9 broad strands; adaxial sclerenchyma always present. <b>Inflorescences</b> 9-15 cm, open, lax or erect. <b>Spikelets</b> 8-14(17) mm, with (4)6-10 florets. <b>Glumes</b> ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute to acuminate; lower glumes 3.5-4.5(7) mm; upper glumes 5-6.5(8.5) mm; lemmas 5-7.5(9.5) mm, green or glaucous, often red-violet along the margins, glabrous, smooth, awned, awns 0.8-3.2 mm; anthers 3.5-4.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 42, 56, 70.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p>Festuca rubra subsp. fallax is a robust taxon that grows in damp, often disturbed places. It is native to northern and central Europe, but has been introduced widely in the Flora region, occurring from British Columbia to eastern Quebec and south to California. It is now common in some areas, occasional in others.</p><!--
--><p>Festuca rubra var. fraterculae Rasm., an unusual form described from the nesting colonies of Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) on the Faeroe Islands and reported as introduced to southern Greenland, is included here in F. rubra subsp. fallax. Its luxuriant growth (flat leaves 4-7 mm wide, long stolons, and rhizomes) appears to be a phenotypic response to the soil conditions created by the puffins.</p>
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name=Festuca rubra subsp. fallax
|author=
|authority=(Thuill.) Nyman
|rank=subspecies
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Festuca rubra var. multiflora;Festuca rubra subsp. multiflora;Festuca rubra var. fraterculae;Festuca heteromalla;Festuca diffusa
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Festuca
|subgenus=Festuca subg. Festuca
|section=Festuca sect. Festuca
|species=Festuca rubra
|subspecies=Festuca rubra subsp. fallax
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