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Eight Flowered Fescue

Festuca octoflora

Also called Eight Flowered Six Weeks Grass, Pullout Grass, Six Weeks Fescue, Sixweeks Grass, Sixweeks Fescue, Slender Vulpia

Eight Flowered Fescue
Photo: Matt Lavin, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass, Annual
Native range
Canada to NW. Mexico, Guadalupe, S. South America
Climate
temperate

About

Festuca octoflora, also known as Vulpia octoflora, is an annual plant in the grass family (Poaceae). The common name six-week fescue is because it supplies about 6 weeks of cattle forage after a rain. Other common names include sixweeks fescue, six-weeks fescue, pullout grass, eight-flower six-weeks grass, or eight-flowered fescue.

Where it grows

This bunchgrass is native to North America occurring across a large part of Canada, in all of the lower 48 contiguous United States, and Baja California of Mexico. It grows in open, sunny places between shrubs and in burn areas. It is commonly found in burn areas after a fire.

Other Festuca plants

Festuca floribunda · Festuca abyssinica · Banks Peninsula Blue Tussock · Festuca alatavica · Festuca aloha · Festuca alpina · Altai fescue · Wood Fescue · Amethyst Fescue · Festuca ampla · Festuca amplissima · Festuca argentina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Festuca octoflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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