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OverviewAI-generated
Festuca pratensis, commonly known as meadow fescue, is a species of plant within the family Poaceae. It belongs to the genus Festuca and is classified under the order Poales, class Liliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta in the kingdom Plantae. The species is described as a perennial and useful plant. Its taxon author citation is Freyn.
The range of Festuca pratensis includes Beijing, China, Xinjiang, and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Other common names for this species include peiswellt, Beemdlangbloem, kostřava luční, and beemdlangbloem. Records from iDigBio indicate the presence of the species in the United States, with 2,937 records and 2,114 media items associated with the institution BUT.
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Species
meadow fescue
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
Chile Central
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,937
- With media
- 2,114
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- BUT
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
Lolium pratense, meadow fescue is a perennial species of grass, which is often used as an ornamental in gardens, and is also an important forage crop. It grows in meadows, roadsides, old pastures, and riversides on moist, rich soils, especially on loamy and heavy soils.
Most publications have used the names Festuca pratensis or, more recently, Schedonorus pratensis for this species, but DNA studies appear to have settled a long debate that it should be included within the genus Lolium instead.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Festuca pratensis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.