Festuca edlundiae
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
| genus = Festuca
| species = edlundiae
| authority = S.G.Aiken, Consaul & Lefk.
}}
Festuca edlundiae, commonly known as Edlund's fescue, is a native, perennial tufted grass found in Alaska, Canadian arctic islands, northern Greenland, far eastern arctic Russia and Svalbard.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BNC9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT387 |title=Manual of Grasses for North America |page=387 |last=Barkworth |first=Mary E |author2=Anderton, Laurel K |author3=Capels, Kathleen M |author4=Long, Sandy |author5=Piep, Michael B |year=2007 |publisher=University Press of Colorado |isbn=978-1457180989}} The specific name honours Doctor Sylvia Edlund, a Canadian botanist. It was first described by Susan Aiken, Laurie Consaul and Leonard Lefkovitch in 1995.{{cite web |url=http://nature.ca/aaflora/data/www/pofeed.htm |title=Festuca edlundiae S. Aiken, Consaul and Lefkovitch |work=Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago |publisher=Canadian Museum of Nature}}
Description
It is closely related to Festuca brachyphylla. The plant is similar to boreal fescue (Festuca hyperborea) but has flag leaf (final leaf) blades that are 5 mm or longer and has larger spikelets. It grows in dense clumps without rhizomes.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGocHgeBwVMC&pg=PA432 |title=Flora of North America: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, part 1 |page=432 |volume=24 |year=1993 |isbn=0195310713|last1=Committee |first1=Flora of North America Editorial |publisher=Oxford University Press }}
Habitat
The plant grows in the High Arctic in fine-grained and calcareous soils.
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://svalbardflora.no/index.php?id=657 |title=Festuca edlundiae S. Aiken, Consaul & Lefkovitch |work=The Flora of Svalbard |access-date=2015-11-05 |archive-date=2017-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425070243/http://svalbardflora.no/index.php?id=657 |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite journal |author1=Susan G. Aiken |author2=Laurie L. Consaul |author3=Leonard P. Lefkovitch |year=1995 |title=Festuca edlundiae (Poaceae), a High Arctic, new species compared enzymatically and morphologically with similar Festuca species |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=374–392 |doi=10.2307/2419501 |jstor=2419501}}
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Category:Grasses of the United States
Category:Flora of Northern America
Category:Flora of Northern Europe
Category:Plants described in 1995
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