Taxon: Festuca rubra L. subsp. rubra

See other conspecific taxa:

• Festuca rubra (426 accessions)
• Festuca rubra subsp. arctica (20 accessions)
• Festuca rubra subsp. commutata (49 accessions)
• Festuca rubra subsp. densiuscula (2 accessions)
• Festuca rubra subsp. fallax (5 accessions)
• Festuca rubra subsp. litoralis (2 accessions)
• Festuca rubra subsp. mediana (1 accessions)
• Festuca rubra subsp. pruinosa (no accessions)

Common names:

• red fescue   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• zi yang mao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• fétuque rouge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• fétuque rouge traçante   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• Rotschwingel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• festuca rossa   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• wanggimuiteol   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• festuca-encarnada   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cañuela roja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• rödsvingel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Greece; Italy; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Greenland

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Iceland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Georgia [n.], Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah

• also cultivated

References:

• Aiken, S. G. et al. 1996–. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval.
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Alexeev, E. 1979. Genus Festuca L. in Asia Media. Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 15:46.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Duyvendak, R. et al. 1981. Delimitation of taxa and cultivars of red fescue (Festuca rubra L. sensu lato). 3:60.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

Synonyms:

• (=) Festuca glaucescens Hegetschw. & Heer
  
• (=) Festuca rubra subsp. glaucescens K. Richt.
  
• (=) Festuca rubra var. glaucescens Hack.
  
• (=) Festuca rubra subsp. glaucodea Piper
  
• (=) Festuca rubra var. lanuginosa Mert. & W. D. J. Koch
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) "Festuca rubra [unranked] vulgaris Gaudin, nom. inval."
  
• (=) Festuca rubra subsp. vulgaris Hayek
  

Check other web resources for Festuca rubra L. subsp. rubra:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• 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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