Details for: PI 578733, Festuca ovina L., 'COVAR'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Festuca ovina L.

Cultivar:

'COVAR'

Origin:

Developed – United States

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

1980

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		PI 578733 2007i 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 ovina L.

Cultivar:

'COVAR'

Origin:

Developed – United States

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

1980

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Developed

PRE 1980.
United States

Developer(s):

Donated

1980.
Washington, United States

Donor(s):

USDA, SCS

Accession Names and Identifiers

'COVAR'

Type: Cultivar name

USDA, SCS

P-274

Type: Other or unclassified name

USDA ARS National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Narrative

Dwarf, blue-green, densely tufted, erect-growing perennial with abundant fine stems. Leaves narrow, short, stiff, basal, and abundant. Shorter, more uniform and has deeper blue color than other sheep fescue selections. Slow to establish but once established very persistent, winter- hardy, drought-tolerant, and resistant to common turf diseases.

Festuca ovina L.

Genus:

Festuca

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Poeae

Subtribe:

Loliinae

Nomen number:

16688

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:73. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

05/08/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Autonym(s)
Festuca ovina L. subsp. ovina
Festuca ovina L. var. ovina

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	seq	Citation
English	ovina		1	Aiken, S. G. et al. 1996-. Festuca of North America: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval.
English	sheep fescue		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Chinese	yang mao	羊茅	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
French	coquiole		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	fétuque des moutons		2	Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. Note: GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
French	fétuque ovine		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Schafschwingel		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian	festuca ovina		2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Portuguese	festuca-ovelha		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	cañuela de oveja		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	fårsvingel		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Korean	gimuiteol		2	Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
CYTOLOGIC	Chromosome number	Somatic chromosome number	14	3	For a htm file on the technique used. For a Excel file of Jaussi's data.">GRASS.CHROMNUM.2008.JAUSSI	PI 578733 95o SD	Not Available
OTHER	Image/picture1	A picture or image	vegetative		GRASS.IMAGE.2008.WRPIS	PI 578733 95o SD	Not Available