Festuca octoflora facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Festuca octoflora
Scientific classification
Genus:	Festuca
Species:	octoflora
Synonyms
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb.

Festuca octoflora (formerly Vulpia octoflora), also called six-weeks fescue, pullout grass, sixweeks fescue, eight-flower sixweeks grass, eight-flowered fescue; is an annual plant in the grass family (Poaceae). The common name "six week fescue" is because it supplies about 6 weeks of cattle forage after a rain.

Subspecies include Festuca octoflora Walter var. tenella, Festuca gracilenta Buckley, and Festuca tenella Willd.

Range and habitat

This bunchgrass is native to North America occurring across a large part of Canada, in all of the lower 48 contiguous United States, and Baja California of Mexico. It grows in open, sunny places between shrubs and in burn areas. It is commonly found in burn areas after a fire.

Varieties

The Vulpia octoflora varieties include:

• Vulpia octoflora var. glauca
• Vulpia octoflora var. hirtella
• Vulpia octoflora var. octoflora