Details for: PI 617037, Festuca longifolia Thuill., 'AURORA GOLD'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca longifolia Thuill.
Cultivar:
'AURORA GOLD'
Origin:
Developed – North Carolina, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
23 Mar 2001
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca longifolia Thuill.
Cultivar:
'AURORA GOLD'
Origin:
Developed – North Carolina, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
23 Mar 2001
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed

North Carolina, United States

Developer(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'AURORA GOLD'
Type: Cultivar name

PST-4RU
Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative
Exhibits resistance to glyphosate in both turf and seed production.
Festuca longifolia Thuill.
Genus:
Festuca
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Loliinae
Nomen number:

16670
Place of publication:

Fl. env. Paris ed. 2:50. 1799
Comment:
  • non Festuca longifolia auct. pl. (= F. brevipila R. Tracey - "hard fescue")
  • non Festuca longifolia auct. nonn. (= F. lemanii T. Bastard)
Verified:
12/18/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishblue fescue  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
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Description:
Origin traces to Aurora hard fescue and resulted from five cycles of phenotypic recurrent selection for tolerance to glyphosate.