Festuca longifolia

{{Short description|Species of grass}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Speciesbox | image = Festuca longifolia subsp. pseudocostei (Marienfloss).JPG | genus = Festuca | species = longifolia | authority = Thuill. | synonyms = ''Festuca caesia'' <small>Sm.</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web |title=''Festuca caesia'' <small>Sm.</small> |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/175138111 |access-date=2023-01-13}}</ref> }}

'''''Festuca longifolia''''', known in Britain and Ireland as '''blue fescue''',<ref name=BSBI07>{{BSBI 2007 |accessdate=2014-10-17 }}</ref> is a species of grass which is native to Channel Islands and Southern Devon.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=node/1710|title=''Festuca longifolia'' |publisher=Online Atlas of the British & Irish Flora|accessdate=November 18, 2013}}</ref> It was described by Auquier in 1977.<ref>{{cite journal|author=D. J. Gibson and I. Taylor|title=Festuca longifolia Thuill. (F. glauca auct. non. Vill. F glauca var. caesia (Sm.) Howarth, F caesia Sm.)|journal=Journal of Ecology|year=2005|volume=93|issue=238|pages=214–226|doi=10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00963.x |s2cid=85312282 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2005JEcol..93..214G }}</ref>

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longifolia Category:Plants described in 1977 Category:Biota of the Channel Islands