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|accepted_name=Festuca rubra subsp. rubra
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|common_names=Red fescue;Fetuque rouge tracante
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Festuca;Festuca subg. Festuca;Festuca sect. Festuca;Festuca rubra;Festuca rubra subsp. rubra
|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. rubra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 418
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>rhizomatous, usually loosely cespitose, with several culms arising from the same tuft, vegetative shoots 8-22(30) cm. <b>Culms</b> (20)40-90 cm. <b>Sheaths</b> reddish brown, scarious, pubescent, shredding into fibers; blades 0.5-2 mm in diameter, usually conduplicate, sometimes flat, abaxial surfaces smooth or scabrous, green or glaucous, adaxial surfaces scabrous or pubescent on the ribs; abaxial sclerenchyma in 5-7(9) small strands; adaxial sclerenchyma rarely present. <b>Inflorescences</b> 7-12 cm, open, lanceolate; branches scabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> 9-14.5 mm, with 5-8 florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes 3-4.5 mm; upper glumes 4-6.4 mm; lemmas (4)6-7.5(8) mm, lanceolate, usually green with red-violet borders, sometimes mostly red-violet, margins sometimes scabrous, apices scabrous, acute to acuminate, awned, awns 0.6-3.2(4) mm; anthers 2.4-3.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 42.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p>Festuca rubra subsp. rubra grows in disturbed soil. It is often planted as a soil binder, or as turf or forage grass, in mesic temperate parts of the Flora region. Originally from Eurasia, it has been widely introduced elsewhere in the world, including most of the Flora region, from southern Alaska east to Newfoundland and Greenland and south to California and Georgia. It also grows in Mexico. Because F. rubra subsp. rubra has often been misunderstood, confounded, and lumped with other taxa of the F. rubra complex, statements about its distribution, including that given here, should be treated with caution. It is to be expected throughout the Flora region, in all but the coldest and driest habitats.</p>
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
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