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Taxon: Festuca occidentalis Hook.

Genus:

Festuca

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Poeae

Subtribe:

Loliinae

Nomen number:

16685

Place of publication:

Fl. bor.-amer. 2:249. 1840

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

13-May-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

western fescue (Source: Festuca N Amer) - English

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Ontario]
WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta (s.w.), British Columbia]
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Michigan (n.)]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [South Dakota (w.), Wisconsin]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming (n.)]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]

References:

Aiken, S. G. et al. 1996-. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval.
Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California

Check other web resources for Festuca occidentalis Hook. :

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
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=16685. Accessed 4 October 2024.