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Festuca altaica Trin.

Festuca altaica Trin.

Festuca altaica
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

Festuca altaica Trin.. Festuca altaica, also known as the altai fescue, or the northern rough fescue, is a perennial bunchgrass with a wide native distribution in the Arctic, from central Asia to eastern North America. It was first described in 1829 by Carl Bernhard von Trinius. It is under the synonym F. scabrella, the rough fescue.

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Native range

Native range not recorded for this plant. Often a non-native cultivar or naturalized garden plant.

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