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§1 Plant
Festuca paradoxa Desv.
vernacular clustered fescue — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Festuca
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 117 counties across 12 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 117 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Cabarrus 37025
- Cherokee 37039
- Cleveland 37045
- Cumberland 37051
- Davidson 37057
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Granville 37077
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Henderson 37089
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Montgomery 37123
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Stanly 37167
- Swain 37173
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FEPA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704984 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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