Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Scolochloa > Scolochloa festucaceaScolochloa festucacea (rivergrass; common rivergrass)Synonyms: Aira arundinacea (heterotypic); Arundo festucacea (homotypic); Donax borealis; Donax festucaceus (homotypic); Festuca arundinacea (heterotypic); Festuca borealis; Festuca donacina; Fluminia arundinacea; Fluminia festucacea (homotypic); Glyceria arundinacea (heterotypic); Graphephorum arundinaceum; Graphephorum festucaceum (homotypic); Schedonorus arundinaceus (heterotypic); Schenodorus arundinaceus (homotypic); Scolochloa arundinacea (heterotypic); Scolochloa marchica; Sieglingia festucacea (homotypic); Triodia festucacea (homotypic) Scolochloa is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae / Gramineae, now containing a single species, Scolochloa festucacea. Common rivergrass is a common name for the species. Scolochloa festucacea grows in Europe, temperate Asia, and North America. Its culms are erect and 100–150 centimetres (39–59 in) in height; its leaf blades are 15–30 cm (5.9–11.8 in) long and 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) wide. The genus formerly included a second species, Scolochloa arundinacea, which is now placed in the genus Arundo as Arundo donax. |
| Bloom Period [1] | Late Summer | | Drought Tolerance [1] | Low | | Fire Tolerance [1] | Medium | | Frost Free Days [1] | 3 months 5 days | | Fruit/Seed Abundance [1] | Medium | | Fruit/Seed Begin [1] | Spring | | Fruit/Seed End [1] | Summer | | Growth Form [1] | Rhizomatous | | Growth Period [1] | Spring, Summer | | Growth Rate [1] | Moderate | | Leaf Type [1] | Deciduous | | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | | Propagation [1] | Seed, Sprig | | Root Depth [1] | 16 inches (41 cm) | | Seed Spread Rate [1] | Moderate | | Seed Vigor [1] | Medium | | Seeds Per [1] | 175000 / lb (385809 / kg) | | Shape/Orientation [1] | Erect | | Structure [3] | Grass | | Vegetative Spread Rate [1] | Moderate |  | | Flower Color [1] | Green | | Foliage Color [1] | Green | | | Height [1] | 4.92 feet (1.5 m) | | | Hardiness Zone Minimum [1] | USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°) | | Light Preference [2] | Mostly Sunny | | Soil Acidity [2] | Neutral | | Soil Fertility [2] | Intermediate | | Soil Moisture [2] | Wet | | Water Use [1] | High | | | Screening - Summer [1] | Moderate | | Screening - Winter [1] | Porous |
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Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
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Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 2Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991)
Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248 ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4FEEDING ECOLOGY OF PINTAIL HENS DURING REPRODUCTION, GARY L. KRAPU, The Auk 91: 278-290. April 1974 ♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 6Foraging ecology of bison at the landscape and plant community levels: the applicability of energy maximization principles, Daniel Fortin, John M. Fryxell, Lloyd OBrodovich, Dan Frandsen, Oecologia (2003) 134:219227 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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