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| Festuca californica Vasey |
Festuca californica is a species of grass known by the common name California fescue. George S Vasey ( February 28, 1822 – March 4, 1893) was an English-born American botanist who collected a lot in Illinois before integrating Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. It is native to the US states of California and Oregon where it is a member of many plant communities, including chaparral. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Chaparral is a Shrubland or heathland Plant community found primarily in the U This fescue is a clumping perennial without rhizomes. Fescue ( Festuca) is a Genus of about 300 Species of perennial tufted Grasses belonging to the grass family Poaceae In Botany, a rhizome is a horizontal stem of a Plant that is usually found underground often sending out Roots and Shoots It reaches anywhere from 40 to 120 centimeters in height. The rough leaves are narrow but can be quite long. The inflorescence holds spikelets which are each one to two centimeters long. An inflorescence is a group or cluster of Flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main Branch or a complicated arrangement of branches The plant reproduces from seed and from buds located at the base of the clump. This is a California native grass which is used for revegetating grassland that has been cleared or claimed by non-native grasses. California native plants are plants that existed in California prior to the arrival of Europeans Some of them have extraordinary horticultural appeal and have been An introduced species (also known as naturalized species or exotic species) is an Organism that is not indigenous to a given location but