Festuca filiformis Pourr.

En: hair fescue
Fr: fétuque chevelue, fétuque à feuilles capillaires
Provincial Status: Ni
Range: Europe, nAfrica; intr. in sw/w/ne/c/s/eNfld.

[=Festuca capillata Lam., nom. illeg. superfl.]
[=Festuca ovina L. subsp. capillata (Lam.) Kolowska]
[=Festuca ovina L. var. capillata (Lam.) Mathieu, nom. illeg. superfl.]
[=Festuca ovina L. var. capillata (Lam.) Alef. 1866, nom. illeg. isonym., non (Lam.) Mathieu 1853]
[=Festuca ovina L. var. capillata (Lam.) Hack. 1882, nom. illeg. isonym., non (Lam.) Mathieu 1853]
[=Festuca ovina L. subsp. tenuifolia (Sibth.) Celak.]
[=Festuca ovina L. var. tenuifolia (Sibth.) Roem. & Schult.]
[=Festuca tenuifolia Sibth.]

[In our area, rhe sheep fescue, Festuca ovina 'Glauca', sold as an ornamental, actually refers to Festuca filiformis. The cultivar 'Glauca' is also used to describe glaucous forms of Festuca trachyphylla (Aiken et al. 1996+).]

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