Details for: PI 578745, Festuca rubra L. subsp. commutata Markgr.-Dann., 'CASCADE'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca rubra L. subsp. commutata Markgr.-Dann.
Cultivar:
'CASCADE'
Origin:
Developed – Oregon, United States
Received by NPGS:
1981
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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Seed100 countPI 578745 96i SD
Seed available for distribution is a limited resource. The quantity of seed distributed is hopefully sufficient to conduct the intended research. If additional seed is required, the recipient is urged to grow and reproduce the seed. Repeated requests for seed of the same accession will not be honored.
  
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca rubra L. subsp. commutata Markgr.-Dann.
Cultivar:
'CASCADE'
Origin:
Developed – Oregon, United States
Received by NPGS:
1981
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
PRE 1981.
Oregon, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
1981.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'CASCADE'
Type: Cultivar name

Narrative
Noncreeping turf-type with dark green color and fine-leaf texture. Performs as the original Oregon chewings ecotype in that it responds similarly to fertility, clipping height, and turf management as other red and chewing fescues.
Festuca rubra L. subspp. commutata Markgr.-Dann.
Genus:
Festuca
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Loliinae
Nomen number:

103637
Place of publication:

Kart. der Schweiz 81. 1968
Verified:
01/07/2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Festuca rubra L. (432 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. arctica (Hack.) Govor. (22 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. densiuscula Hack. ex Piper (2 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. fallax (Thuill.) Nyman (6 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. litoralis (G. Mey.) Auquier (3 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. mediana (Pavlick) Pavlick (1 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. pruinosa (Hack.) Piper (0 active accession[s])
Festuca rubra L. subsp. rubra (44 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Festuca rubra L. unranked commutata Gaudin, nom. inval.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Festuca nigrescens Lam.
Festuca rubra L. subsp. fallax auct.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishChewings fescue  1Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961-. Flora of New Zealand.
Annotations
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 01 Nov 1996, from Festuca rubra L. subsp. commutata Markgr.-Dann. to Festuca rubra L. subsp. fallax auct.
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 07 Jan 2008, from Festuca rubra L. subsp. fallax auct. to Festuca rubra L. subsp. commutata Markgr.-Dann.
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Pedigree
Description:
Established seed fields of chewings fescue, tracing to a New Zealand source, served as original material. Seed from 16 seed fields were examined. Equal amounts of seed from 12 of the fields were used to establish the basic seed source
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration. CV-9, FESCUE. Issued: 01 Mar 1974.
  • Frakes, R. V. 1974. Crop Sci. (Madison) 14(2):338. Note: CV-9

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MORPHOLOGYSeed weight 100Weight of 100 seeds in grams.0.114 GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISPI 578745 96i SD