Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Festuca brevipila R. Tracey
• (I) Festuca duriuscula auct. N. Amer.
• (I) Festuca longifolia auct. pl.
• Basionym: Festuca ovina subvar. trachyphylla Hack.
• (=) Festuca ovina var. duriuscula auct. N. Amer.

Common names:

• hard fescue  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• hard fescue  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• fétuque à feuilles rudes  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)
• hårdsvingel  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf (as Festuca brevipila) revegetator (as Festuca brevipila) revegetator (as Festuca brevipila)

Distributional Range:

Native

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation, [Volgograd] Ukraine
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Romania


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere)

References:

1. Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource). URL: http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/content/related/Festuca_trachyphylla/ target='_blank'
2. Aiken, S. G. et al. 1996-. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval.
3. Darbyshire, S. J. & L. E. Pavlick. 1997. Nomenclatural notes on North American grasses. Phytologia 82:73-78.
4. Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 26-27.
5. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
6. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
7. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
8. Skvortsov, A. K., ed. 2006. Flora of the Lower Volga region 1:216-217. Note: lists as Festuca trachyphylla (Hack.) Krajina
9. Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:364.
10. Wilkinson, M. J. & C. A. Stace. 1988. The taxonomic relationships and typification of Festuca brevipila Tracey and F. lemanii Bastard (Poaceae). Watsonia 17:293. Note: treats as an illegitimate later homonym of Festuca trachyphylla Hack. ex Druce (1915)
11. 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. 106:393. Note: treats as an illegitimate later homonym of Festuca trachyphylla Hack. ex Druce (1915)
12. 2018. Mid-Atlantic invasive plant species (on-line resource)

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=16747. Accessed 9 July 2024.