Details for: PI 601053, Festuca idahoensis Elmer, 'NEZPURS'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca idahoensis Elmer
Cultivar:
'NEZPURS'
Origin:
Developed – Idaho, United States
Received by NPGS:
1983
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
FormQuantityNoteInventoryCart
Seed200 countPI 601053 2006i 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 idahoensis Elmer
Cultivar:
'NEZPURS'
Origin:
Developed – Idaho, United States
Received by NPGS:
1983
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
PRE 1983.
Idaho, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
1983.
Idaho, United States

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

Narrative
Perennial bunch type forage fescue, erect growth habit, densely tufted, olive-green to green basal leaves, usually spreading culms at seed maturity. More plant variability than Joseph, 55 to 70 cm in height, culms erect, slightly less basal growth than Joseph. Has 35% more forage growth than Covar, but equal that of Durar; seed production 54% more than Covar but 27% less than Durar. Adapted to rangelands of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana, at 300 to 2700 m lelvations, 50 to 75 cm annual precipitation.
Festuca idahoensis Elmer
Genus:
Festuca
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Loliinae
Nomen number:

16665
Place of publication:

Bot. Gaz. 36:53. 1903
Verified:
12/05/1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Festuca idahoensis Elmer subsp. idahoensis
Festuca idahoensis Elmer var. idahoensis

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Festuca ovina L. var. ingrata Hack. ex Beal

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishblue bunchgrass  1Aiken, S. G. et al. 1996-. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval.
Englishbluebunch fescue  1FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
EnglishIdaho fescue  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
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Pedigree
Date released:
1983
Description:
Selected through three cycles of phenotypic recurrent selection by intercrossing seed collections of 89 native ecotypes from the northwest states and Canada. A 90-clone synthetic selected from 200 superior clones.
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration. CV-27, FESCUE. Issued: 01 May 1984.
  • 1984. Crop Sci. (Madison) 24(3):617. Note: CV-27

U.S. Plant Variety Protection
PVP 8400002
Variety: Nezpurs
Taxonomy: Festuca idahoensis Elmer
Experimental name/synonym: unknown
Crop: FESCUE, IDAHO
Applicant: Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station
Date filed: 10/11/1983
Date issued: 09/28/1984
Status: Certificate Expired
Status date: 09/28/2002

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MORPHOLOGYSeed weight 100Weight of 100 seeds in grams.0.176 GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISPI 601053 2006i SD