Festuca octoflora

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Internal ID UUID644030939fda8712236411
Scientific name Festuca octoflora
Authority Walter
First published in Fl. Carol. : 81 (1788)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Brachypodium festucoides Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 95 (1821)
Diarrhena setacea Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 1: 289 (1817)
Festuca gracilenta Buckley Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 14: 97 (1862 publ. 1863)
Festuca octoflora subsp. hirtella Piper Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 10: 12 (1906)
Festuca octoflora var. glauca Fernald Rhodora 34: 209 (1925)
Festuca octoflora var. hirtella (Piper) Hitchc. Man. Grasses U.S. : 60, 860 (1935)
Festuca octoflora var. tenella Fernald Rhodora 34: 209 (1925)
Festuca parviflora Elliott Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 170 (1816)
Festuca pusilla Buckley Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 14: 98 (1862 publ. 1863)
Festuca setacea Poir. Encycl. , Suppl. 2: 638 (1812)
Festuca tenella Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4 , 1: 419 (1797)
Festuca tenella var. glauca Nutt. Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. , n.s., 5: 147 (1835)
Gnomonia octoflora (Walter) Lunell Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 224 (1915)
Schedonorus tenellus P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr. : 99 (1812)
Vulpia antofagastensis Parodi Revista Argent. Agron. 23: 86 (1956)
Vulpia octoflora f. hirtella C.H.Blom Acta Horti Gothob. 5: 89 (1929 publ. 1930)
Vulpia octoflora var. glauca (Nutt.) Fernald Rhodora 47: 107 (1945)
Vulpia octoflora var. hirtella (Piper) Henrard Blumea 2: 320 (1937)
Vulpia octoflora var. tenella (Willd.) Fernald Rhodora 47: 107 (1945)
Vulpia tenella Heynh. Nom. Bot. Hort. : 854 (1840)
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 538 (1909)
Festuca tenella var. aristulata Torr. Pacif. Railr. Rep. Whipple, Bot. 4(5; 4): 156 (1857)

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Language Common/alternative name
English pullout grass
English six weeks fescue
English sixweeks fescue
English sixweeks grass
English six-weeks fescue
nv shį́náldzidí
Swedish amerikansk ekorrsvingel
Chinese 紫鼠茅

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- Native
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • Mexico
      • Mexican Pacific Islands
      • Mexico Northwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • Oklahoma
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Indiana
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • Rhode Island
      • Vermont
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Arkansas
      • Delaware
      • District Of Columbia
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Kentucky
      • Louisiana
      • Maryland
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan
  • Southern America
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Argentina South
      • Chile Central
      • Chile North

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000871181
Canadensys 8009
USDA Plants VUOC
Tropicos 25512635
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267600-2
The Plant List kew-450062
Observations.org 186031
Nature Serve 2.152879
IUCN Red List 44393631
IPNI 267600-2
iNaturalist 59111
GBIF 5289597
Freebase /m/0bh8zn3
FEIS plants/graminoid/vuloct
EPPO VLPOC
EOL 1115256
Elurikkus 505303
Calflora (Californian flora) 8333
USDA GRIN 41940
Wikipedia Festuca_octoflora
Florida Plant Atlas 1650
Flora of Alabama 5095
Tropicos 25516169
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:403190-1
Open Tree Of Life 33577
NCBI Taxonomy 464087
IPNI 403190-1
GBIF 4113111
WisFlora 13044
Calflora (Californian flora) 11690
USDA GRIN 16686
Open Tree Of Life 33577

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Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Browsers or Grazers? New Insights into Feral Burro Diet Using a Non-Invasive Sampling and Plant DNA Metabarcoding Approach Esmaeili S, King SR, Schoenecker KA Animals (Basel) 21-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10451565
doi:10.3390/ani13162683
PMID:37627474
Reinventory of the vascular plants of Mormon Island Crane Meadows after forty years of restoration, invasion, and climate change Caven AJ, Wiese JD Heliyon 03-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9192816
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09640
PMID:35711997
Seed Menus: An integrated decision‐support framework for native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert Shryock DF, DeFalco LA, Esque TC Ecol Evol 12-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9005930
doi:10.1002/ece3.8805
PMID:35432931
Maternal effects and the outcome of interspecific competition Van Allen B, Jones N, Gilbert B, Carscadden K, Germain R Ecol Evol 02-May-2021
PMCID:PMC8216948
doi:10.1002/ece3.7586
PMID:34188833
Checklist of the grasses of India Kellogg EA, Abbott JR, Bawa KS, Gandhi KN, Kailash BR, Ganeshaiah KN, Shrestha UB, Raven P PhytoKeys 16-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC10311516
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.163.38393
PMID:37397271
A mast‐seeding desert shrub regulates population dynamics and behavior of its heteromyid dispersers Auger J, Meyer SE, Jenkins SH Ecol Evol 04-Mar-2016
PMCID:PMC4782247
doi:10.1002/ece3.2035
PMID:27069574
A Mechanistic Study of Plant and Microbial Controls over R* for Nitrogen in an Annual Grassland Yelenik SG, Colman BP, Levine JM, HilleRisLambers J PLoS One 29-Aug-2014
PMCID:PMC4149492
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106059
PMID:25170943
Growth and Competitive Effects of Centaurea stoebe Populations in Response to Simulated Nitrogen Deposition He WM, Montesinos D, Thelen GC, Callaway RM PLoS One 26-Apr-2012
PMCID:PMC3338586
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036257
PMID:22563451
California annual grass invaders: the drivers or passengers of change? HilleRisLambers J, Yelenik SG, Colman BP, Levine JM J Ecol 01-Sep-2010
PMCID:PMC2936119
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01706.x
PMID:20852668
Missing domesticated plant forms: can artificial selection fill the gap? Van Tassel DL, DeHaan LR, Cox TS Evol Appl 24-May-2010
PMCID:PMC3352511
doi:10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00132.x
PMID:25567937
Complex responses to invasive grass litter by ground arthropods in a Mediterranean scrub ecosystem Wolkovich EM, Bolger DT, Holway DA Oecologia 08-Aug-2009
PMCID:PMC2744776
doi:10.1007/s00442-009-1425-7
PMID:19669165

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