Festuca cinerea

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Poales/Poaceae/Festuca

At a glance

Occurrence records9 820

Data sources8

Biological traits19

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Festuca cinerea's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility9 820 records↗

GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements4 literature sources19 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF9 820 records

Genome at a glanceCCDB · GoaT4.9 Gbp

01Narrative

Festuca cinerea, the blue fescue, is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae (true grasses). They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Individuals can grow to 29 cm tall.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesTRYLEDAGIFTWCVP

Size & morphology3

Plant height0.25 m

Plant height max0.8 m

Plant height min0.15 m

Life cycle & reproduction6

Dispersal typeanimal

Flowering endJun

Flowering startMay

Life formperennial

Life spanperennial

Raunkiær life formhemicryptophyte

Diet & foraging2

Carnivorynon-carnivorous

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment6

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatetemperate

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formherb

Woodinessnon-woody

Other traits2

Diaspore typegenerative dispersule

Plant support typefree-standing

05DNA & barcodingmolecular

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Festuca cinerea has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

06Genome at a glanceCCDB · GoaT

The complete instruction manual Festuca cinerea carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Genome size4 871 418 000 bp

Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).

BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb

FUNGUS0.04 Gb

INSECT0.25 Gb

HUMAN3.2 Gb

THIS GENOME Festuca cinerea4.87 Gb

WHEAT17 Gb

FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.

Chromosomes2n = 28 n = 14

Ploidy4× tetraploid · measured

Chromosome records28–282n range28median28mode6records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 286×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +1

GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database — ↗

CCDB · fl-europaea — Bidault, 1968

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — KERGUELEN, M. 1975. Les Gramineae (Poaceae) de la flore Francaise essai de mise au point taxonomique et nomenclaturale. Lejeunia 75: 1–343.

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — `marda, P. & K. Kočí. 2003. Chromosome number variability in Central European members of the Festuca ovina and F. pallens groups (sect. Festuca). Folia Geobot. 38(1): 65–95.

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Smarda. 2005. Ploidy level variability of some central European fescues (Festuca subg.) (Festuca, Poaceae). Biologia (Bratislava) 60(1): 25–36.

CCDB · kew — Smarda P, Bures P, Horova L, Foggi B, Rossi G. 2008. Genome size and GC content evolution of Festuca: Ancestral expansion and subsequent reduction. Annals of Botany 101: 421-433.

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

tetraploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database

GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database

polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale

PloiDB · genus-scale — chromEvol; reliability=1.000 ↗

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type9 820 records

Wild obs. + sensor9 525

Museum / vouchered292

Cultivated / captive3

Origin

Introduced1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO4 060 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy11% within 1 km

≤100 m 661≤1 km 282≤10 km 7 948>10 km 31

8 922 georeferenced · 603 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor9 525

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy43% within 1 km

≤100 m 10≤1 km 22≤10 km 42

74 georeferenced · 218 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence292

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 3 records without

Open the mapnot free-living3

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions6 of 18 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record	30
BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record	30
MeiseBGlocation not on record	14
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record	7
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	4
Frankfurt am Main	3
Dresden, DE	2
GJOlocation not on record	2
GBR016location not on record	2
San Isidro, AR	2
Zürich, CH	1
BRNUlocation not on record	1
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record	1
Logan, US	1
Paris, FR	1
Wlocation not on record	1
Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record	1
Musée des Confluenceslocation not on record	1

18 institutions · 104 of 292 vouchered records shown · 187 without an institution code

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

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Festuca cinerea

At a glance

Sources8 archives

Size & morphology3

Life cycle & reproduction6

Diet & foraging2

Habitat & environment6

Other traits2

At a glance

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

Record type9 820 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions6 of 18 geolocated

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

Record type9 820 records