Taxon: Festuca filiformis Pourr.

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:

MA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• fine-leaf sheep fescue   (Source: Festuca N Amer ) – English
  
• hair fescue   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• slender fescue   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• ovsjanica tonkolistnaja   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• finsvingel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf   (for lawns fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Weed   (adventive fide Grass USSR, as F. tenuifolia)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland [s.w.]; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Italy [n. & c.]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  South America

• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Croatia

• also cultivated

References:

• Aiken, S. G. et al. 1996–. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Snow, N. & G. Davidse. 1993. Taxon 42:413. [mentions].
• Wilkinson, M. J. & C. A. Stace. 1991. A new taxonomic treatment of the Festuca ovina aggregate (Poaceae) in the British Isles. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 106:347–397.
• Wilkinson, M. J. & C. A. Stace. 1991. A new taxonomic treatment of the Festuca ovina aggregate (Poaceae) in the British Isles. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 106:374.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Festuca filiformis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Festuca filiformis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Festuca filiformis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Festuca capillata Lam.
  (previously associated with 15 accessions)
• (=) Festuca ovina var. capillata Mathieu
  
• (=) Festuca ovina subsp. tenuifolia (Sibth.) Čelak.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Festuca ovina var. tenuifolia (Sibth.) Mert. & W. D. J. Koch
  
• (=) Festuca tenuifolia Sibth.
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)

Check other web resources for Festuca filiformis Pourr.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• 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.

Images:

• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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