Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 3134, Festuca trachyphylla Festuca cf. calligera.  
 

 

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Photographed 16 January 2024.

Plants of Colorado
Poaceae

Festuca trachyphylla (Hack.) Krajina.  Hard Fescue.

Festuca cf. calligera (Piper) Rydb., Jan Wingate, 4/23/2024.

Evans Gulch, Lake County, Colorado. Middle section of Evans Gulch, near Conley Lakes and the Diamond Mine, 4.6 mi. by road east of the GNIS location of Leadville. 39.26062°N, 106.22031°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 3450 m. Sunny open southeast-facing slope.

Collected by permit: Pike San Isabel National Forest, 2023, issued: Jul 1, 2023, to: Tom Schweich.

Tom Schweich 3134. 20-Jul-2023

Coll. No. 3134, 20 July 2023, characters observed: Perennial grass, 30-35 cm., forming dense clumps; Stem, glabrous; Leaves, most basal, on flowering culm: sheath, 80 mm., open >½, ligule, membranous, u-shaped [as illustrated in Shaw (2008) and FNANM], <1 mm.; blade, 40-60 mm. × 0.4 mm. dia., revolute, adaxial (inside) hairy, abaxial scabrous; Inflorescence, 1 per culm, >leaves, panicle, 70 mm. × 10-15 mm. wide; Spikelets, many, 6 mm. (plus awns) × 2.2 mm. wide, similar, borne singly; Glumes, lower, 2.5 mm., veins, #1, upper, 4.0 mm., <lowest floret, veins, #3 awns, 0; Florets, 4 per spikelet; Lemma, 4.5 mm., glabrous, distally scabrous, veins, #5, awns, #1, 2.5 mm., straight attached end; Palea, 4.6 mm., ±=lemma; Anthers, 2.6 mm.; Ovary, glabrous.

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