View source for Festuca californica

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|accepted_name=Festuca californica
|accepted_authority=Vasey
|publications=
|common_names=California fescue
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Festuca;Festuca subg. Festuca;Festuca sect. Breviaristatae;Festuca californica
|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. Breviaristatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Festuca californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 410
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, with¬out rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 30-150 (200) cm, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes scabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> closed for less than 1/3 their length, persistent, glabrous or pilose, smooth or scabrous, sometimes scabrous or pilose only distally or on the distal margins; collars usually densely pubescent or with a few hairs at the margins, sometimes glabrous; ligules 0.2-5 mm, usually ciliate, abaxial surfaces puberulent; blades 1-6.5 mm wide, conduplicate, convolute, or flat, 0.5-2(2.5) mm in diameter when convolute, deciduous, abaxial surfaces scabrous or smooth, glabrous or the bases pubescent, adaxial surfaces puberulent to pubescent, veins 9-15(17), ribs (3)5-15(17); abaxial sclerenchyma forming more or less continuous bands, sometimes reduced to small strands; adaxial sclerenchyma sometimes present; girders or pillars present at most veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> 10-25(30) cm, open, with (1)2(4) branches per node; branches spreading and lax. <b>Spikelets</b> 8-18(20) mm, borne towards the ends of the branches, with 3-6(8) florets. <b>Glumes</b> lanceolate, glabrous or sparsely scabrous at the apices; lower glumes (4)4.5-6.7(8) mm; upper glumes (5)6-10 mm; lemmas (7)7.5-11 mm, lanceolate, scabrous, puberulent, sometimes minutely bidentate, acute, usually awned, rarely unawned, awns (1)2-3(4) mm; paleas shorter than to longer than the lemmas, pubescent or glabrous on the margins, intercostal region usually puberulent distally; anthers (3)4-7.5(8.5) mm; ovary apices densely pubescent. <b>2n</b> = 56.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Festuca californica</i> grows on dry, open slopes and moist streambanks in thickets and open woods, from sea level to 2000 m. Its range extends from Clackamas County, Oregon, to the Sierra <i>Nevada</i> and southern California; it is not known to extend into Mexico. It is the largest species of <i>Festuca</i> in the Flora region.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Culms 30-80(100) cm tall, usually pubescent for more than 5 mm below the nodes; lower sheaths densely retrorsely pubescent; vegetative shoot blades with (3)5-9 ribs, the ribs to about 1/2 as deep as the blade thickness; abaxial sclerenchyma in small strands or forming continuous bands; adaxial sclerenchyma strands present or absent; sclerenchyma pillars rarely formed; girders not developed; spikelets with 3-4(5) florets
|[[Festuca californica subsp. parishii|Festuca californica subsp. parishii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Culms 60-150(200) cm tall, glabrous or pubescent for less than 5 mm below the nodes; lower sheaths glabrous or pubescent, if pubescent then usually not densely retrorsely hairy; vegetative shoot blades with 7-15(17) ribs, the ribs usually more than 1/2 as deep as the blade thickness; abaxial sclerenchyma forming a continuous band; adaxial sclerenchyma in strands; sclerenchyma pillars or girders usually associated with most of the veins; spikelets with (3)4-6(8) florets.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Ligules 0.2-1(1.2) mm long, ciliate; spikelets (8)13-18(20) mm long
|[[Festuca californica subsp. californica|Festuca californica subsp. californica]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Ligules (1)1.5-5 mm long, ciliate or not; spikelets 8-12(17) mm long
|[[Festuca californica subsp. hitchcockiana|Festuca californica subsp. hitchcockiana]]
|}
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name=Festuca californica
|authority=Vasey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Festuca
|subgenus=Festuca subg. Festuca
|section=Festuca sect. Breviaristatae
|species=Festuca californica
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