Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 3125, Festuca trachyphylla Festuca cf. calligera.  
 

 

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Photographed 14 January 2024.

Plants of Colorado
Poaceae

Festuca trachyphylla (Hack.) Krajina.  Hard Fescue.

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

Unnamed Gulch, Lake County, Colorado. Along Forest Road 189, about 1 km. east of County Road 18 “East Tennessee Road,” 5.69 km. (geodesic) north northwest of the GNIS location of Leadville. 39.29737°N, 106.31657°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 3093 m. Mid-size grass. South side of the gulch on the edges of an open aspen forest.

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

Tom Schweich 3125. 19-Jul-2023

Coll. No. 3125, 19 July 2023, characters observed: Perennial grass, to 35 cm., not rhizomatous; Stem, ascending at base, glabrous below inflorescence; Leaves, sheath, open, ligule, membranous ears with cilia [see Shaw (2008) fig. 242], blade, ≤0.5 mm. wide, revolute, hairy inside; Inflorescence, 1 per culm, >leaves, panicle, spreading, ascending, 90 mm. × 30 mm. wide; Spikelets, many, 7 mm. × 2 mm. wide, similar, borne singly; Glumes, lower, 3.3 mm., veins, 1(3?) [except for mid-veins, all veins on glumes and lemmas are obscure] upper, 4.0 mm., <lowest floret, veins, 1(3?), awns, 0; Florets, 4 per spikelet; Lemma, 4.5 mm., >glumes, membranous, rolled, proximally short hairy, distally scabrous, veins, #5???, glabrous, awns, #1, 2.5-4.0 mm., straight, attached end; Palea, ±=lemma, membranous; Anthers, 2.1-2.7 mm.; Ovary, apex with a couple hair-like things.

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