Index / Search / Festuca brachyphylla f. ssp.
§1 Plant
Festuca brachyphylla Schult. ex Schult. & Schult. f. ssp. coloradensis Frederiksen
vernacular Colorado fescue — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Festuca
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 47 counties across 6 states/territories§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 47 counties across 6 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Clear Creek 08019
- Dolores 08033
- El Paso 08041
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Hinsdale 08053
- Jackson 08057
- La Plata 08067
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Mesa 08077
- Montezuma 08083
- Park 08093
- Pitkin 08097
- Routt 08107
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Summit 08117
Nevada view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FEBRC ↗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:
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