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(First upload on December 3 2016. Last on May 8 2023) [ 日本語 | English ]

Festuca arundinacea Schreb.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Festuca L. (ウシノケグサ)
Oniushinokegusa (オニウシノケグサ, 鬼牛ノ毛草), tall fescue (sometimes called Kentucky 31)
Lifeform: turfed, perennial grass
Distribution: Europe - East Asia

Introduced to the most regions in the world, including Japan (firstly reported in 1905)
Hokkaido Blue List: A3

Habitat: roadsides, parks, fields, gardens, etc.
Chromosome number: 2n = 28, 42 and 72
Synonym:
Schedonorus phoenix (Scop.) Holub, recently used
Schedonorus arundinaceus (Schreb.) Dumort.
Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) S. J. Darbyshire
Festuca elatior L. var. arundinacea (Schreb.) Wimm.
Festuca elatior L. ssp. arundinacea (Schreb.) Celak.
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Festuca arundinacea in Hokkaido


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[1] in front of Japanese black-noodle restaurant, Kiritachitei (霧立亭) in Horokanai Town, northern Hokkaido, on June 29 2018. [2/3] under a street tree at a roadside in N15/W5, North Ward, Sapporo, on June 23 2016. [4/5] in a small park (not maintained well) near the Muroran Marine Experimental Station of Hokkaido University on September 12 2016. [6] along a paved road in Maruyama-Nishimachi at the bottom of Horomi Path (幌見峠), Sapporo, on June 11 1985 (the specimen, stored in SAPS). Records: at Denshinhama Coast, Muroran City, on September 11 2017. Near Ishikari Coast in the Road Station "Ai-rodo (I-Road) Atsuta" on August 19 2019. In front of GSES on June 19 2021. Along a paved road in N18/W4, North Ward, Sapporo, on July 9 2021.

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