Details for: PI 566934, Festuca longifolia Thuill., 'DISCOVERY'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Festuca longifolia Thuill.
Cultivar:
'DISCOVERY'
Origin:
Developed – North Carolina, United States
Received by NPGS:
02 Apr 1993
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
FormQuantityNoteInventoryCart
Seed100 countPI 566934 2022i 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 longifolia Thuill.
Cultivar:
'DISCOVERY'
Origin:
Developed – North Carolina, United States
Received by NPGS:
02 Apr 1993
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
14 December 1998.
North Carolina, United States
Comment: CSR
Developer(s):
Donated
02 April 1993.
United States
Comment: PVP
Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'DISCOVERY'
Type: Cultivar name

PST-4HD
Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative
Low-growing hard fescue. Produces dense, fine-textured, dark green turf. Performed well in low maintenance and medium-high maintenance turf trials across the U.S. Seedling vigor and cold-temperature color retention good. Performed well in both full sun and shade. Resistance to the following diseases: red thread (Laetisaria fuciformis), dollar spot (Sclerotinia homoeocarpa), summer patch (Magnaporthe poae), pink patch (Limonomyces roseipellis), and anthracnose (Colletotrichum graminicola). Seed production characteristics good, producing a high number of inflorescences and exhibiting tolerance to rust (Puccinia crandallii).
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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Pedigree
Description:
Advanced-generation synthetic from the interpollination of progenies of clones selected for low growth habit and high number of reproductive tillers.
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration. CV-71, FESCUE. Issued: 01 Sep 1999.
  • Rose-Fricker, C. A., M. L. Fraser, & W. A. Meyer. 1999. Discovery Hard Fescue. Crop Sci. (Madison) 39(5):1530.

U.S. Plant Variety Protection
PVP 9300182
Variety: Discovery
Taxonomy: Festuca longifolia Thuill.
Experimental name/synonym: PST-4HD
Crop: FESCUE, HARD
Applicant: Pure-Seed Testing, Inc.
Date filed: 03/29/1993
Date issued: 06/30/1994
Status: Certificate Expired
Status date: 06/30/2012

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MORPHOLOGYSeed weight 100Weight of 100 seeds in grams.0.238 GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISPI 566934 98o SDNot Available