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Festuca altaica
Also called Rough fescue, Northern Rough Fescue
Festuca altaica, also known as the altai fescue, or the northern rough fescue, is a perennial bunchgrass with a wide native distribution in the Arctic, from central Asia to eastern North America. It was first described in 1829 by Carl Bernhard von Trinius. It is under the synonym F. scabrella, the rough fescue.
Festuca altaica has a wide Arctic distribution. In temperate Asia it is native to Siberia and the Russian Far East, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Xinjiang in China. In North America it occurs throughout the subarctic, in western Canada, in parts of eastern Canada (Labrador, Newfoundland and Quebec) and into Michigan in the United States. The Canadian province of Alberta, in the Canadian Prairies region, is home to a large area of grassland containing this species. Under the name Festuca scabrella, rough fescue is the provincial grass of Alberta.
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