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Clustered Fescue
Festuca paradoxa
Festuca paradoxa, the cluster fescue, is a cool-season grass native to Canada and the Continental United States. Like other cool-season grasses, it grows during the spring and fall, and remains dormant for the rest of the year. This helps maintain ground cover before the warm season grasses begin to grow and after they die off.
From the article Festuca paradoxa on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
Cluster fescue grows in a wide variety of places - wet to dry-mesic prairies. It grows along forest borders and in glades. It is found in 23 states in the United States, throughout the midwest to the east coast. However, it is rarely abundant in natural stands, and is not well known.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Festuca paradoxa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 162959.