Difference between revisions of "Festuca filiformis"

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Plants densely cespitose, with¬out rhizomes. Culms 18-40(60) cm, mostly scabrous or puberulent below the inflorescence. Sheaths closed for less than 1/3 their length, smooth or scabrous, glabrous or finely puberulent, persistent; collars glabrous; ligules 0.1-0.4 mm; blades 0.2-0.4(0.6) mm in diameter, conduplicate, abaxial surfaces smooth, adaxial surfaces scabrous, veins 5(7), ribs 1, distinct; abaxial sclerenchyma forming a continuous or almost continuous band; adaxial sclerenchyma absent. Inflorescences 1-6(14) cm, usually contracted, with 1-2 branches per node; branches usually erect, lower branches with 2+ spikelets. Spikelets 3-6(6.5) mm, with 2-6(8) florets. Glumes exceeded by the upper florets, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, glabrous; lower glumes 1-2.5 mm; upper glumes (1.7)2-3(3.9) mm; lemmas 2.3-4(4.4) mm, obtuse to acute, mostly smooth and glabrous, sometimes scabrous or pubescent distally, unawned, sometimes mucronate, mucros to 0.4 mm; paleas about as long as the lemmas, intercostal region smooth or scabrous distally; anthers (1)1.5-2.2 mm; ovary apices glabrous. 2n = 14 (28).

Wash., D.C, N.H., N.J., N.C., Tenn., N.Y., Pa., Alta., B.C., N.B., Nfld. And Labr., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., R.I., S.C., W.Va., Va., Vt., Ill., Ind., Conn., Maine, Md., Mass., Ohio, Mich., Mont., Wis., Miss., Oreg.

Discussion

Festuca filiformis is a European species that has been introduced to the Flora region as a turf grass. It grows well on poor, dry soils and is becoming a ruderal weed in some areas. It is particularly common in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, but has been reported from scattered locations elsewhere.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa