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Crinkleawn fescue

Festuca subuliflora

Also called Coast Range Fescue, Crinkle Awn Fescue, Crinkle Awned Fescue

Crinkleawn fescue
Photo: Hitchcock, A. S. (rev. A. Chase), Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
W. Canada to N. California
Climate
temperate

About

Festuca subuliflora is a species of grass known by the common name crinkleawn fescue. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California where it is most abundant in the moist forests of the coastal mountains.

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 subuliflora 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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