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alpine fescue

Festuca brachyphylla

Flowering time June-August
Habitat Open rocky places in the alpine.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains, northern Great Plains, and northeastern North America; circumboreal.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
F. campestris, F. filiformis, F. idahoensis, F. occidentalis, F. ovina, F. roemeri, F. rubra, F. saximontana, F. subulata, F. subuliflora, F. trachyphylla, F. valesiaca, F. viridula, F. washingtonica
Subordinate taxa
F. brachyphylla ssp. brachyphylla, F. brachyphylla ssp. coloradensis
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