Details for: PI 665692, Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E. B. Alexeev, 9079512


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E. B. Alexeev
Top Name:
9079512
Origin:
Collected – Oregon, United States
Received by NPGS:
10 Aug 2012
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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Seed200 countPI 665692 2012o SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E. B. Alexeev
Top Name:
9079512
Origin:
Collected – Oregon, United States
Received by NPGS:
10 Aug 2012
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
PRE 2003.
Oregon, United States

Donated
24 August 2012.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
9079512
Type: Institute identifier
Group: NRCS
Natural Resources Conservation Service

Puget Germplasm Roemer's Fescue
Type: Donor identifier

Narrative
Puget Germplasm Roemer's fescue is a native cool season, long-lived, perennial bunchgrass with mostly basal foliage. The foliage is fine textured and densely tufted (cespitose). Morphological diversity among the seven parent populations appears moderate. Leaves are mostly glaucous (covered with a whitish waxy coating) and predominately pale blue, though color also varies from pale green to grey-blue and purple-blue within this germplasm. Plants rarely flower until the second full growing season. Stem color ranges from yellowish green to green or reddish purple, turning mostly straw colored at seed maturity. Mean culm (plant) heights varied from 99 to 106 cm (39-41 in), the tallest on average among five selected germplasms. Mean basal width ranged from 11 to 15 cm (4.3-5.9 in). The botanical traits for the seven populations that form Puget Germplasm Roemer's fescue fall within the taxonomic limits of Festuca roemeri var. roemeri (Wilson, 2007). The panicle (seed head or inflorescence) is loosely open to moderately contracted and 5-20 cm (2-8 in) long; branches are erect to slightly spreading. The spikelets are 9-13.5 mm (0.35-0.53 in) long with 4-6 florets. Glumes are exceeded by the upper florets. Lemma awns are 2-5 mm (0.08-0.20 in.) long. Leaf sheaths are closed for less than half their length and collars are glabrous; ligules are 0.1-0.5 mm (0.004-0.02 in) long; blades are 0.5-1.2 mm (0.02-0.05 in) in diameter (Darbyshire and Pavlick, 2007). Roemer's fescue is an allotetraploid (2n=28) and is highly cross-pollinated by wind. Among the seven parent populations representing Puget Germplasm, mean flowering dates (Julian dates 134-136) and seed maturity dates (Julian dates 167-168) were similar. Julian date is the number of days counted from January 1st as day 1. Incidence of rust disease was moderately low (8-16%).
Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E. B. Alexeev
Genus:
Festuca
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Loliinae
Nomen number:

423853
Place of publication:

Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 22:23. 1985
Verified:
06/03/2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
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Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Festuca idahoensis Elmer var. roemeri Pavlick

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Festuca idahoensis Elmer subsp. roemeri (Pavlick) S. G. Aiken

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishRoemer's fescue  1USDA, NRCS. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service's PLANTS database (on-line resource).
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Pedigree
Description:
Puget Germplasm is the result of geographic selection and open crossing of seven populations for one generation for the limited purpose of enhancing genetic diversity over single wild populations. This germplasm is not anticipated to have substantial genetic improvement or hybrid vigor in terms of ease of establishment, reproductive capability, and plant growth over other naturally occurring, fit populations of Roemer's fescue found within the same ecoregion.

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
CYTOLOGICPloidy LevelPloidy level as determined by nuclear DNA contentallotetraploid GRASS.PASSPORT.DATAPI 665692 2012o SD