EPPO Global Database

Festuca nigrescens(FESNI)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-02-14

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: FESNI
  • Preferred name: Festuca nigrescens
  • Authority: Lamarck

Notes

Most of Europe. Widely cultivated as a lawn grass under the name F. rubra commutata (Chewing's fescue). Introduced in Australia (Western, Northern, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Festuca fallax var. nigrescens (Lamarck) Ascherson & Gräbner
Festuca rubra subsp. commutata Gaudin

Common names
Name Language
Chewing's fescue English
dichtrasiger Rotschwingel German
Horsrotschwingel German
horstbildender Rotschwingel German
horstiger Rotschwingel German
Horstschwingel German
trügerischer Rotschwingel German
fétuque noirâtre French
fétuque noirâtre à feuilles courtes French
fétuque rouge pelotonnée French
festuca roja falaz Spanish
festuca dei nardeti Italian
festuca nerastra Italian
gramigna fusaiola fallace Italian
festuca-encarnada-fallax Portuguese
röd tättuvad svingel Swedish
tuvsvingel Swedish
овсяница черноватая Russian
vej-svingel Danish
puistonata Finnish
kostrzewa czarniawa Polish
kostrzewa czerwona kępkowa Polish
лъжлива власатка Bulgarian
palletes de prau Catalan
vlasulja  Croatian
kostřava červená načernalá Czech
tõmmu aruhein Estonian
kostrava cernastá Slovak
črnikasta bilnica Slovene