Festuca subuliflora Scribn.
crinkle-awned fescue (crinkleawn fescue)
Poaceae (Grass family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
crinkle-awned fescue (crinkleawn fescue)
Poaceae (Grass family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Perennial, loosely tufted grass from fibrous roots; stems (40) 60-100 (125) cm tall, with visible nodes.
Leaves:
Sheaths not conspicuous at the base of the stems, shredding into fibres towards the end of the growing season; blades (10) 15-30 (40) cm long, 2-10 mm wide, flat, lax; ligules 0.2-0.6 mm long, fringed hairs with hairs usually 0.5-1 times the length of the ligules.
Flowers:
Inflorescence an open panicle, (7) 10-20 cm long, the branches 3-15 cm long; spikelets (2-) 3- to 4- (5-) flowered, 8-12.5 mm long; lower glumes 2-4 mm long, the upper ones 3.5-5 (6) mm long; lemmas 6-9 mm long, awned, the awns 10-15 mm long, crinkled, zig-zagged, often recurved; anthers 2.5-4 mm long; ovary tops hairy.
Illustration
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Festuca subuliflora
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
||
|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
507 | 0 | 1285 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
15 | 0 | 80 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
198 | 6 | 360 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 0 | 6 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
D | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
114 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
CWH | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
CDF(2), CWH(77), IDF(11), MH(1), MS(14), SBPS(4), SBS(3) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
|
|||