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Alaska Fescue (Festuca brevissima)

Description

Plants yellowish green or deep green, (2.5-)10-15(-18) cm high, densely tufted (tufts separated into groups of shoots surrounded at the base by more or less numerous leaf sheaths), tiller bases stiffly erect, bases not purplish, horizontal rooting stems absent. Vegetative shoots arising from within existing sheaths.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Poales

            • Family: Poaceae

              • Genus: Festuca