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(First upload on June 8 2016. Last on August 10 2018) [ 日本語 | English ]

Festuca L. (ウシノケグサ) F. ovina L. Ushinokegusa (ウシノケグサ, 牛ノ毛草, s.l.), sheep fescue Lifeform: densely-turfed, perennial grass (tussock, 谷地坊主) Distribution: Europe - Asia (introduced to North America) Habitat: bareground - grassland ssp. coreana (St. Yves) E. B. Alexeev (アオウシノケグサ)

Synonyms: Festuca ovina L. var. pubiculmis Ohwi ssp. litoralis (Tzvelev) E. B. Alexeev (コウライウシノケグサ), exotic ssp. ovina (シンウシノケグサ), the type ssp. ruprechtii (Boiss.) Tzvelev (ミヤマウシノケグサ), grasslands and rocky sites on alpine zones, hairless on an upper part of culm var. tateyamensis Ohwi (タカネウシノケグサ), hairless grown in alpine zones Cultivars: glauca (confusing)

Festuca ovina in Japan

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[1/2] at a sand beach adjacent to Oshima Island in Matsushima Islands, northern Honshu, on March 21 2016. [3] along the shore of Echigo Pond in Ebetsu City on October 8 2017. [4-6] in a foerst around the third or sixth stations on Mount Apoi (アポイ岳), central southern Hokkaido, on June 15 2016. Records: on a bank, made of concrete, near Kariki Bridge along Toyohira River, Sapporo, on June 21 2021.

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Festuca glauca Vill. (ギンシンソウ) F. glauca Vill. Ginshinsou (ギンシンソウ, 銀針草), blue fescue ≠ F. ovina L. cv glauca, confusable with F. glauca

Lifeform: turfed, evergreen, perennial grass with 15-30 cm in height Distribution: Asia - Europe (controversial) Leaf blade: aging from blue-green to dark green to buff

Cultivars: Elijah Blue (F. cinerea Vill.), silver-blue leaves Golden Toupee Blue Glow, etc.

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[1-3] in the Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho (☛ biotope, corridor) on November 24 2017.