Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Vulpia octoflora var. glauca
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. var. glauca (Nutt.) Fernald
Sixweeks Fescue, Slender 8-flowered Fescue
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: VUOCGUSDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Vulpia octaflora var. glauca
Sixweeksgrass
Poaceae
Location: On limestone hill in extreme SW Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Shallow, calcerous soil; half shaded, among other Poaceae. Small colony.
Description: Loosely tufted annual to 30 cm tall. Culms slender/weak, 2/3 height of plant. Ligules to 1 mm long. Infloresence an appressed panicle to 4 cm long. Spikelets to 5 mm long, glaberous. Lemma awn of lowwest floret to 3 mm.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 27, 1994
Specimen number: 551
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0837
Accession Date: Jul 26, 1994
Accession Number: 63
Annotations: SXFRB (In fruit)