Festuca elmeri - Citizendia

Festuca elmeri

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Festuca
Species:	F. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Liliopsida is a Botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family Poales is an order of Flowering plants in the Monocotyledons and includes families of plants such as the grasses, Bromeliads, Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. Fescue ( Festuca) is a Genus of about 300 Species of perennial tufted Grasses belonging to the grass family Poaceae elmeri

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Festuca elmeri
Scribn. & Merr.

Festuca elmeri is a species of grass known by the common names coast fescue and Elmer's fescue. Elmer Drew Merrill ( October 15, 1876 &ndash February 25, 1956) was an American Botanist, specializing in the flora of 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 often grows in wet, shady areas in coastal counties. 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. This fescue grows in thin bunches with erect stems reaching up to one meter in height. Fescue ( Festuca) is a Genus of about 300 Species of perennial tufted Grasses belonging to the grass family Poaceae The leaves are somewhat hairy and 10 to 40 centimeters long. The drooping inflorescence holds spikelets which are each about a centimeter long and have light-colored, hairlike awns. 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 In Botany, an awn is either a hair- or bristle-like appendage on a larger structure or in the case of the Asteraceae, a stiff needle-like element of the

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