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§1 Plant
Festuca paradoxa Desv.
vernacular clustered 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
· 252 counties across 23 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 252 counties across 23 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Champaign 17019
- Fayette 17051
- Franklin 17055
- Fulton 17057
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Jackson 17077
- Jasper 17079
- Jefferson 17081
- Johnson 17087
- Marion 17121
- Massac 17127
- Menard 17129
- Morgan 17137
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Richland 17159
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Williamson 17199
Indiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Butler 29023
- Caldwell 29025
- Callaway 29027
- Carter 29035
- Cass 29037
- Christian 29043
- Clay 29047
- Dallas 29059
- Dent 29065
- Franklin 29071
- Harrison 29081
- Hickory 29085
- Howell 29091
- Iron 29093
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Johnson 29101
- Lafayette 29107
- Lawrence 29109
- Lewis 29111
- Linn 29115
- Monroe 29137
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Perry 29157
- Pettis 29159
- Phelps 29161
- Pike 29163
- Polk 29167
- Pulaski 29169
- Ripley 29181
- Shannon 29203
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Stoddard 29207
- Sullivan 29211
- Taney 29213
- Wayne 29223
- Wright 29229
Nebraska view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Cabarrus 37025
- Cherokee 37039
- Cleveland 37045
- Cumberland 37051
- Davidson 37057
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Granville 37077
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Henderson 37089
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Montgomery 37123
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Stanly 37167
- Swain 37173
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Oklahoma view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FEPA2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704984 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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