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Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora
sixweeks fescue

       
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Line Drawing of Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora
Festuca octoflora

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 1: 269. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.
 
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Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

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Synonyms:
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

  FEOC3 Festuca octoflora Walter
  FEOCA Festuca octoflora Walter var. aristulata Torr. ex L.H. Dewey
 

Distribution:
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

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USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, ON, SK)
 

Related Taxa:
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

View 342 genera in Poaceae, 11 species in Vulpia, 3 varieties in Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb.
 

Classification:
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

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Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass Commelinidae
Order Cyperales
Family Poaceae – Grass family
Genus Vulpia C.C. Gmel. – fescue
Species Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. – sixweeks fescue
Variety Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora – sixweeks fescue
 

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

The related entity italicized and indented below is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Vermont:
Vulpia octoflora
eight-flowered fescue              Endangered
 

U.S. Weed Information:
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

Vulpia octoflora
pullout grass
sixweeks fescue
sixweeks grass

The related entities italicized and indented above can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.

NE&GP        Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe, & M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska.
 

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

Vulpia octoflora:

Nat. Ind. Reg. 1 Reg. 2 Reg. 3 Reg. 4 Reg. 5 Reg. 6 Reg. 7 Reg. 8 Reg. 9 Reg. 0 Reg. A Reg. C Reg. H
UPL,FACU+ UPL FACU+ FACU-* FACU UPL NI NI UPL UPL UPL NO NO NO
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More Accounts and Images:
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. octoflora

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 530863.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View species account and photographs from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium.

 
 
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