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|accepted_name=Festuca amethystina
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Tufted fescue;Fétuque à couleur d'améthyste
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Festuca;Festuca subg. Festuca;Festuca sect. Festuca;Festuca amethystina
|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 amethystina]]</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. <b>Culms</b> (25)50-80(105) cm, erect, glabrous and smooth throughout. <b>Sheaths</b> closed for about 1/2 their length, glabrous, smooth, usually reddish blue towards the bases, persistent, flag leaf sheaths tightly enclosing the culms; collars glabrous; ligules 0.1-0.5 mm; blades 0.6-1.2(1.5) mm in diameter, conduplicate, abaxial surfaces glabrous, smooth or scabrous, adaxial surfaces scabrous, veins (5)7-9, ribs 5-9; abaxial sclerenchyma in (5)7-9 broad strands, rarely some strands confluent; adaxial sclerenchyma absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> (3)8-18 (25) cm, open or loosely contracted, with 1-2(3) branches per node; branches somewhat lax, erect to spreading, lower branches with 2+ spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> (5)6-8.5(10) mm, with (3)4-6(8) florets. <b>Glumes</b> exceeded by the upper florets, lanceolate, mostly smooth and glabrous, sometimes scabrous distally; lower glumes 2.5-4 mm; upper glumes 3-5(5.5) mm; lemmas (3.5)4-5.6(6.6) mm, usually smooth, sometimes scabrous near the apices, lanceolate, usually acute, sometimes obtuse, unawned, occasionally mucronate; paleas about as long as the lemmas, intercostal region smooth or slightly scabrous distally; anthers (2)3-4 mm; ovary apices glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>2n</b>= 14.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Festuca amethystina</i> is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental species; it may occasionally escape.</p>
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|authority=L.
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Festuca
|subgenus=Festuca subg. Festuca
|section=Festuca sect. Festuca
|species=Festuca amethystina
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