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SPECIES: Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue 



ABBREVIATION : 
VULOCT

SYNONYMS : 
   Festuca octoflora
   Festuca reflexa
   Festuca tenella
   Festuca tenella var. glauca
   Festuca pusilla
   Festuca octoflora ssp. hirtella


SCS PLANT CODE : 
   VUOC
   VUOCG
   VUOCH


COMMON NAMES : 
   sixweeks fescue
   slender fescue
   eight-flowered fescue
   sixweeksgrass


TAXONOMY : 
The fully documented scientific species name of sixweeks fescue is
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb.  The annual fescues, only "weakly
distinguished" from perennial fescues, were previously placed in the
subgenus Vulpia within the genus Festuca [4].  According to Cronquist
and others [4], most American researchers now follow European workers in
giving the annual fescues generic status.  Vulpia octoflora was formerly
known as Festuca octoflora.

Three varieties, which differ slightly in morphological characteristics,
are widely recognized [4]:

           Vulpia octoflora var. glauca (Nutt.) Fern.
           Vulpia octoflora var. hirtella (Piper) Henr. 
           Vulpia octoflora var. octoflora

Two additional varieties were recognized by Fernald [8]:

           Vulpia octoflora var. tennella
           Vulpia octoflora var. aristulata  L.H. Dewey


LIFE FORM : 
Graminoid

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS : 
No special status

OTHER STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


COMPILED BY AND DATE : 
D. Tirmenstein, February 1987


LAST REVISED BY AND DATE : 
D. Tirmenstein, January 1988


AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION : 
Tirmenstein, D. A. 1987. Vulpia octoflora. In: Remainder of Citation

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