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§1 Plant

Festuca brachyphylla Schult. ex Schult. & Schult. f. ssp. brachyphylla

vernacular alpine fescue — subspecies · Poaceae

USDA
FEBRB
GBIF
2704975
Rank
subspecies
alpine fescue (Festuca brachyphylla f. ssp.)
Platephotograph · Nate MartineauCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Festuca
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 30 counties across 2 states/territories
Legend Native · 30 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 30 counties across 2 states/territories.

Idaho view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 22 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/FEBRB ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2704975 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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