Taxon: Festuca arizonica Vasey

Common names:

• Arizona fescue   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• mountain bunchgrass   (Source: Festuca N Amer ) – English
  
• pinegrass   (Source: Festuca N Amer ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, Utah [San Juan Co.]

References:

• Aiken, S. G. et al. 1996–. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. (Festuca N Amer)
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2) [= F. ovina var. arizonica Hack. ex Beal].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Festuca arizonica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Festuca arizonica. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Festuca ovina var. arizonica (Vasey) Hack. ex Beal
  

Check other databases for Festuca arizonica Vasey:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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