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|accepted_name=Festuca ovina
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Sheep fescue;Fétuque des ovins
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Festuca;Festuca subg. Festuca;Festuca sect. Festuca;Festuca ovina
|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 ovina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 422
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, without rhizomes; usually not glaucous. <b>Culms</b> (10)30-50(70) cm, glabrous, smooth. <b>Sheaths</b> closed for about 1/2 their length, glabrous, smooth or scabrous distally, persistent; collars glabrous; ligules shorter than 0.3 mm; blades 0.3-0.7(1.2) mm in diameter, conduplicate, abaxial surfaces smooth or scabrous, adaxial surfaces scabrous, veins 5-7(9), ribs 1-3, indistinct; abaxial sclerenchyma usually a continuous band; adaxial sclerenchyma absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> (2)5-10(12) cm, contracted, with 1-2(3) branches per node; branches usually erect, sometimes spreading at anthesis, lower branches with 2+ spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> 4-6(7.3) mm, with 3-6(8) florets. <b>Glumes</b> exceeded by the upper florets, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, mostly smooth and glabrous, sometimes scabrous distally; lower glumes 1-2(3) mm; upper glumes (2.2)2.6-4(4.6) mm; lemmas (2.6)3-4(5) mm, ovate-lanceolate, mostly smooth, sometimes scabrous or hispid near the apices, awns 0.5-2 mm, terminal, sometimes absent; paleas about equal to the lemmas, intercostal region puberulent distally; anthers (1.4)2-2.6 mm; ovary apices glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 14, 28.</span><!--

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|distribution=Utah;Wash.;Mass.;Calif.;Del.;Oreg.;Vt.;Ill.;N.J.;N.Y.;S.C.;Mo.;Ky.;Conn.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.
|discussion=<p><i>Festuca ovina</i> was introduced from Europe as a turf grass. It is not presently used in the North American seed trade. The sporadic occurrences are mostly from old lawns and cemeteries, or sites seeded for soil stabilization.</p><!--
--><p><i>Festuca ovina</i> used to be interpreted very broadly in North America, including almost any fine-leaved fescue that lacked rhizomes. Consequently, much of the information reported for <i>F. ovina</i>, and many of the specimens identified as such, belong to other species. The only confirmed recent reports are from Ontario (Dore & McNeill 1980); Piatt County, Illinois; and Okanogan County, Washington. Species in this treatment that have frequently been included in <i>F. ovina</i> are <i>F. arizonica</i> (p. 438), <i>F. auriculata</i> (p. 424), <i>F. baffinensis</i> (p. 432), <i>F. brachyphylla</i> (p. 428), <i>F. brevissima</i> (p. 426), <i>F. calligera</i> (p. 437), <i>F. edlundiae</i> (p. 432), <i>F. frederikseniae</i> (p. 436), <i>F. hyperborea</i> (p. 432), <i>F. idahoensis</i> (p. 438), <i>F. lenensis</i> (p. 426), <i>F. minutiflora</i> (p. 434), <i>F. saximontana</i> (p. 430), <i>F. trachyphylla</i> (p. 424), and <i>F. viviparoidea</i> (p. 436).</p>
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name=Festuca ovina
|authority=L.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Utah;Wash.;Mass.;Calif.;Del.;Oreg.;Vt.;Ill.;N.J.;N.Y.;S.C.;Mo.;Ky.;Conn.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.
|reference=None
|publication title=
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|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Festuca
|subgenus=Festuca subg. Festuca
|section=Festuca sect. Festuca
|species=Festuca ovina
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