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Festuca quadriflora Walter

Poaceae · Illinois, Iowa +16

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Festuca quadriflora Walter: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Honck.

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Summary

Festuca quadriflora is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is native to Central Pyrenees and Alps. It is perennial and grows in temperate biomes. It was first described in 1782.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Festuca quadriflora", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeIllinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“annual” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 953 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 7793279 (Festuca quadriflora Walter): Kew's file holds it as Festuca quadriflora Walter (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) arthur_haendler, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Wolfgang Jauch, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).

Other Festuca 61 in the reference

Festuca actae Festuca actae Banks Peninsula blue tussock Photo: CC BY, Oscar DoveFestuca airoides Festuca airoides Tufted fescue Photo: CC BY, Flavien Saboureau Festuca alaica Poaceae Festuca alpina Festuca alpina Poaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Kim LottermanFestuca altissima Festuca altissima Wood fescue Photo: CC BY, Наталья ПикаловаFestuca amethystina Festuca amethystina Amethyst Fescue Photo: CC BY, Christian Berg Festuca apuanica Poaceae Festuca arvernensis Festuca arvernensis Field fescue Photo: CC BY, Guillaume Petit Festuca asperula Poaceae Festuca beckeri Festuca beckeri Poaceae Photo: CC BY, Stanislav MurashkinFestuca bosniaca Festuca bosniaca Poaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, ЈугFestuca brachyphylla Festuca brachyphylla Short-leaved fescue Photo: CC BY, Ida B D Jacobsen all 62 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Festuca accomodata; Festuca aperta; Festuca aspernata; Festuca chiodonoxa; Festuca grata and 31 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Festuca pumila: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

Under another author Festuca varia Clairv., 1811 is an older name of this species, not Festuca varia, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
Walter
Native to
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri +15
Wild records
none in range · 953 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 4116348 is Festuca quadriflora Honck.; the page links Kew's Festuca quadriflora Walter, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 7793279, Festuca quadriflora Walter (Kew's file holds it as Festuca quadriflora Walter (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 5 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (5 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Festuca quadriflora Walter (the item's: IPNI 403383-1, POWO 403383-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 54 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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