Taxon: Festuca arundinacea Schreb.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

DE°, MD°, NH°, NJ°, PA°, VA°, WV°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Festuca arundinacea subsp. arundinacea (2 accessions)
• Festuca arundinacea subsp. atlantigena (1 accessions)
• Festuca arundinacea subsp. atlantigena forma pseudomairei (no accessions)
• Festuca arundinacea subsp. cirtensis (no accessions)
• Festuca arundinacea subsp. fenas (3 accessions)
• Festuca arundinacea subsp. orientalis (6 accessions)
• Festuca arundinacea subsp. uechtritziana (1 accessions)

Common names:

• cañuela alta   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• erva-corneira   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• fétuque élevée   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• fétuque roseau   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• reed fescue   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Rohrschwingel   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• tall fescue   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; lawn/turf; ornamental   (fide Grass VarUSA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Festuca arundinacea from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan - Baluchistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

Other:

• naturalized in s. Africa, Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, & Macaronesia

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)
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
• Darbyshire, S. J. 1993. Realignment of Festuca subgenus Schedonorus with the genus Lolium (Poaceae). Novon 3:241. [= Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) S. J. Darbyshire].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Reveal, J. L. et al. 1991. (996) Proposal to reject Festuca elatior L. with comments on the typification of F. pratensis and F. arundinacea (Poaceae). Taxon 40:135–136.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta). (L Azores)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Festuca arundinacea.

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

Synonyms:

• Festuca arundinacea var. glaucescens auct. [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. fenas]
  
• Festuca arundinacea var. letourneuxiana (St.-Yves) ined.? [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. cirtensis]
  
• Festuca arundinacea var. orientalis (Hack.) K. Richt. [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. orientalis]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Festuca elatior L.
  (previously associated with 116 accessions)
• Festuca elatior subsp. arundinacea (Schreb.) Čelak. [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. arundinacea]
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• Festuca elatior var. arundinacea (Schreb.) Wimm. [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. arundinacea]
  (previously associated with 17 accessions)
• Festuca elatior var. atlantigena St.-Yves [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. atlantigena]
  
• Festuca elatior var. cirtensis St.-Yves [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. cirtensis]
  
• Festuca elatior var. glaucescens Boiss. [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. fenas]
  
• Festuca elatior var. letourneuxiana St.-Yves [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. cirtensis]
  
• Festuca elatior subvar. minutiflora St.-Yves [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. atlantigena]
  
• Festuca elatior var. minutiflora (St.-Yves) Litard. [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. atlantigena]
  
• Festuca elatior f. pseudomairei Litard. & Maire [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. atlantigena forma pseudomairei]
  
• Festuca fenas Lag. [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. fenas]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Festuca glaucescens auct. [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. fenas]
  
• Festuca orientalis (Hack.) Krecz. & Bobrov [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. orientalis]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Festuca uechtritziana Wiesb. [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. uechtritziana]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh. [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. arundinacea]
  
• Poa phoenix Scop. [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. arundinacea]
  
• Schedonorus arundinaceus (Schreb.) Dumort. [≡ Festuca arundinacea subsp. arundinacea]
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)
• Schedonorus phoenix (Scop.) Holub [= Festuca arundinacea subsp. arundinacea]
  

Check other databases for Festuca arundinacea Schreb.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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:

• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16631 (21 November 2009)

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