''Festuca octoflora'', also known as ''Vulpia octoflora'',
is an
annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. The length of growing seasons and period in which they take place vary according to geographical ...
in the grass family (
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
).
[Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 285] The common name six week fescue is because it supplies about 6 weeks of cattle forage after a rain.
Other common names include sixweeks fescue,
six-weeks fescue, pullout grass, eight-flower sixweeks grass, or eight-flowered fescue.
Range and habitat
This
bunchgrass is native to
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
occurring across a large part of
Canada, in all of the lower 48
contiguous United States
The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the Federal District of the United States of America. The term excludes the only two non-contiguous states, Alaska and Hawaii ...
, and
Baja California of
Mexico. It grows in open, sunny places between shrubs and in burn areas.
It is commonly found in burn areas after a fire.
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Varieties
''Festuca octoflora''/''Vulpia octoflora'' varieties include:
*''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''glauca'' (AKA ''Festuca octoflora'' Walter var. ''tenella'', ''Festuca gracilenta'' Buckley, ''Festuca tenella'' Willd., and ''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''tenella'')
*''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''hirtella''
*''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''octoflora''
References
External links
Jepson Manual – ''Vulpia octoflora''
octoflora
Bunchgrasses of North America
Grasses of the United States
Grasses of Canada
Grasses of Mexico
Native grasses of California
Plants described in 1788
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