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§1 Plant
Festuca idahoensis Elmer
vernacular Idaho fescue — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Festuca
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 199 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–8.4
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 450,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 199 counties across 12 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
California view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Colusa 06011
- Del Norte 06015
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- San Francisco 06075
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Clear Creek 08019
- Conejos 08021
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Eagle 08037
- El Paso 08041
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Hinsdale 08053
- Jackson 08057
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Moffat 08081
- Montrose 08085
- Park 08093
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- Summit 08117
Idaho view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Bear Lake 16007
- Blaine 16013
- Boise 16015
- Bonneville 16019
- Butte 16023
- Camas 16025
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Clearwater 16035
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Fremont 16043
- Gooding 16047
- Idaho 16049
- Jefferson 16051
- Latah 16057
- Lemhi 16059
- Lincoln 16063
- Madison 16065
- Owyhee 16073
- Shoshone 16079
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
- Valley 16085
Montana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Baker 41001
- Benton 41003
- Clatsop 41007
- Columbia 41009
- Coos 41011
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Deschutes 41017
- Douglas 41019
- Gilliam 41021
- Grant 41023
- Harney 41025
- Hood River 41027
- Jackson 41029
- Jefferson 41031
- Josephine 41033
- Klamath 41035
- Lake 41037
- Lane 41039
- Lincoln 41041
- Linn 41043
- Malheur 41045
- Marion 41047
- Morrow 41049
- Sherman 41055
- Umatilla 41059
- Union 41061
- Wallowa 41063
- Wasco 41065
- Washington 41067
- Wheeler 41069
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Adams 53001
- Asotin 53003
- Benton 53005
- Chelan 53007
- Clallam 53009
- Columbia 53013
- Cowlitz 53015
- Douglas 53017
- Ferry 53019
- Franklin 53021
- Garfield 53023
- Grant 53025
- Island 53029
- Jefferson 53031
- Kittitas 53037
- Klickitat 53039
- Lincoln 53043
- Mason 53045
- Okanogan 53047
- Pend Oreille 53051
- Pierce 53053
- San Juan 53055
- Skagit 53057
- Skamania 53059
- Spokane 53063
- Stevens 53065
- Thurston 53067
- Walla Walla 53071
- Whitman 53075
- Yakima 53077
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FEID ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704957 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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