{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = Vulpia octoflora (3990319536).jpg | genus = Festuca | species = octoflora | authority = Walter | synonyms = {{specieslist|Vulpia octoflora| (Walter) Rydb.}} }}
'''''Festuca octoflora''''', also known as '''''Vulpia octoflora''''',<ref name=grinspecies>{{Cite web|url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=16686|title=Festuca octoflora Walter GRIN-Global}}</ref><ref>Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 314</ref> is an annual plant in the grass family (Poaceae).<ref name=MDW>Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd E. 2013, p 285</ref> The common name '''six-week fescue''' is because it supplies about 6 weeks of cattle forage after a rain.<ref name=MDW /> Other common names include '''sixweeks fescue''',<ref name= usda>{{PLANTS|symbol=VUOC |name=Vulpia octoflora |accessdate=2015-08-07}}</ref> '''six-weeks fescue''', '''pullout grass''',<ref name= usda/> '''eight-flower six-weeks grass''',<ref name= usda/> or '''eight-flowered fescue'''.<ref name= usda/>
== Range and habitat == This bunchgrass is native to North America occurring across a large part of Canada, in all of the lower 48 contiguous United States, and Baja California of Mexico.<ref>{{GRIN|id=41940 |name=Vulpia octoflora |accessdate=2010-03-09}}</ref><ref>http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9330,9340 Jepson . accessed 10 May 2010</ref> It grows in open, sunny places between shrubs and in burn areas.<ref name=MDW /> It is commonly found in burn areas after a fire.<ref name=MDW/>
== Varieties == ''Festuca octoflora''/''Vulpia octoflora'' varieties include: *''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''glauca'' <ref>{{GRIN|name=Vulpia octoflora var. ''glauca''|accessdate=10 May 2010}}</ref> (AKA ''Festuca octoflora'' Walter var. ''tenella'', ''Festuca gracilenta'' Buckley, ''Festuca tenella'' Willd., and ''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''tenella''<ref>{{FEIS |last=Howard |first=Janet L. |date=2006 |type=graminoid |genus=Vulpia |species=octoflora |accessdate=2010-03-09}}</ref>) *''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''hirtella'' <ref>{{GRIN|name=Vulpia octoflora var. ''hirtella''|accessdate=10 May 2010}}</ref> *''Vulpia octoflora'' var. ''octoflora'' <ref>{{GRIN|name=Vulpia octoflora var. ''octoflora''|accessdate=10 May 2010}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=25872 Jepson Manual – ''Vulpia octoflora'']
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octoflora Category:Bunchgrasses of North America Category:Grasses of the United States Category:Grasses of Canada Category:Grasses of Mexico Category:Native grasses of California Category:Plants described in 1788
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