Vulpia

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Vulpia
Vulpia bromoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Vulpia
K.C. Gmel.
Species

30 - See text

Vulpia is a genus of grasses which are known as fescues; Vulpia is sometimes considered a subset of the main fescue genus, Festuca. Many of these fescues are considered noxious weeds in places where they are not native. Vulpia myuros is a notable weed in this genus.

Selected species:

  • Vulpia bromoides - brome fescue
  • Vulpia elliotea - squirreltail fescue
  • Vulpia microstachys - small fescue
  • Vulpia myuros - rat-tail fescue
  • Vulpia octoflora - sixweeks fescue, pullout grass

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