Festuca rupicola
Festuca rupicola
Synonyms: Festuca sulcata f. incurvata, Festuca sulcata f. portensis, Festuca anceps, Festuca sulcata f. pseudobulbosa, Festuca rupicola var. sulcata, Festuca triplicifolia, Festuca rupicola f. almasului, Festuca ovina subsp. sulcata, Festuca rupicola f. tricostata, Festuca rupicola f. inaequata, Festuca valesiaca var. ganeschinii, Festuca glaberrima, Festuca rupicola f. megaphylla, Festuca ovina var. juncifolia, Festuca duriuscula f. inaequata, Festuca rupicola f. portensis, Festuca stricta subsp. sulcata, Festuca valesiaca subsp. sulcata, Festuca sulcata f. almasului, Festuca sulcata f. glaucantha-hirsuta, Festuca sulcata var. rupicola, Festuca recognita f. subglabrata, Festuca recognita f. glabra, Festuca sulcata, Festuca rupicola f. glaucantha-hirsuta, Festuca rupicola f. glaberrima, Festuca ovina var. fissa, Festuca rupicola var. coziae, Festuca rupicola subsp. colorata, Festuca rupicola f. prorepens, Festuca rupicola var. retezatensis, Festuca ganeschinii, Festuca × subspicata, Festuca sulcata f. strictiflora, Festuca vindobonensis, Festuca sulcata f. tricostata, Festuca sulcata f. hackelii, Festuca sulcata f. longifolia, Festuca rupicola f. colorata, Festuca sulcata f. prorepens, Festuca ovina subvar. hispida, Festuca rupicola f. ciliata, Festuca ovina subsp. kandavanica, Festuca rupicola var. hispida, Festuca rupicola f. hispida, Festuca sulcata var. coziae, Festuca rupicola f. incurvata, Festuca rupicola f. supinoides, Festuca rupicola f. longifolia, Festuca rupicola f. minor, Festuca duernsteinensis, Festuca duriuscula f. pauciflora, Festuca rupicola f. pauciflora, Festuca supinoides, Festuca sulcata f. ciliata, Festuca ovina subvar. barbulata, Festuca rupicola f. hackelii, Festuca sulcatifrons, Festuca granitica, Festuca ovina var. sulcata, Festuca colorata, Festuca rupicola f. submutica, Festuca rupicola var. dacica, Festuca rupicola f. strictiflora, Festuca pallens subsp. colorata, Festuca megaphylla, Festuca rupicola f. pseudobulbosa, Festuca ovina var. sulcatiformis, Festuca rupicola var. rodnensis, Festuca recognita
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Botanical Description
Festuca rupicola, the furrowed fescue or rock fescue, is a densely tufted perennial grass of the Poaceae forming firm bunches 20-70 cm tall, with all innovations strictly intravaginal so the plant lacks rhizomes and creeping shoots. Culms are erect, slender, smooth and terete, with one to three glabrous sheaths in their upper parts. The basal leaf blades are tightly conduplicate (folded) and almost setaceous, 0.5-1.0 mm thick when folded, 10-30 cm long, blue-green to grey-green, smooth or slightly scabrous, and characterised by a deeply furrowed adaxial surface with seven to nine prominent ribs and a continuous sclerenchyma sheath. Ligules are very short and membranous, with auricle-like marginal extensions. The inflorescence is a narrow, contracted panicle 6-15 cm long with short, appressed branches. Spikelets are 6-10 mm long, ovate, with 4-7 florets, and are pale green often tinged violet. Glumes are unequal, lanceolate and acute; lemmas are 4-6 mm long, smooth or scabrous near the tip and tapered into a short, straight awn 0.5-2 mm long. The species grows on dry, often calcareous steppe meadows, rocky slopes and open pine forests across central and eastern Europe and into temperate western Asia.
Cultural & Historical Context
Traditional American Uses
None Documented
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