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|accepted_name=Festuca glauca
|accepted_authority=Vill.
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|common_names=Blue fescue;Gray fescue;Fétuque glauque
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Festuca;Festuca subg. Festuca;Festuca sect. Festuca;Festuca glauca
|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 glauca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 422
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, without rhizomes; usually glaucous or pruinose. <b>Culms</b> (15)22-35(50) cm, erect, glabrous, smooth. <b>Sheaths</b> closed for about 1/2 their length, pubescent or glabrous, persistent; collars glabrous; ligules 0.1-0.4 mm; blades 0.6-1 mm in diameter, conduplicate, veins 5-7, ribs 1-3(5), indistinct; abaxial sclerenchyma forming continuous or interrupted bands; adaxial sclerenchyma absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2.5-9(11) cm, compact, erect, with 1-2 branches per node; branches stiff, erect, smooth or scabrous, lower branches with 2+ spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> 5.5-9(11) mm, with 3-6(7) florets. <b>Glumes</b> exceeded by the upper florets, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, glabrous or pubescent distally; lower glumes (1.8)2-3(4) mm; upper glumes 2.8-4(5.1) mm; lemmas (3.5)4-6(6.2) mm, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, smooth or scabrous near the apices, sometimes pubescent distally, awns (0.6)1-1.5(2) mm, terminal; paleas about equal to the lemmas, intercostal region puberulent distally; anthers (1.8)2-3 mm; ovary apices glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 42 [in European literature for the horticultural forms].</span><!--

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|discussion=<p>Festuca glauca is widely grown as an ornamental in the Flora region because of its attractive dense tufts of glaucous foliage. It is not known to have escaped cultivation. Several other Eurasian species of fescue with white or bluish foliage are also sold in the horticultural trade as "Festuca glauca". Determining the species involved is beyond the scope of this treatment.</p>
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name=Festuca glauca
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|authority=Vill.
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|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 glauca
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