Index / Search / Festuca rubra ssp. arctica
§1 Plant
Festuca rubra L. ssp. arctica (Hack.) Govor.
vernacular Richardson's fescue — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Festuca
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 18 counties across 1 state§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 18 counties across 1 state.
Alaska view state ↗ 18 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FERUA6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705033 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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