Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 24 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | ALB | EUROPE |
| Austria | AUT | |
| Baleares | BAL | |
| Belgium | BGM | |
| Bulgaria | BUL | |
| Central European Russia | RUC | |
| Corse | COR | |
| Czechia-Slovakia | CZE | |
| France | FRA | |
| Germany | GER | |
| Greece | GRC | |
| Hungary | HUN | |
| Italy | ITA | |
| Netherlands | NET | |
| NW. Balkan Pen. | YUG | |
| Poland | POL | |
| Romania | ROM | |
| Spain | SPA | |
| Switzerland | SWI | |
| Türkiye-in-Europe | TUE | |
| Ukraine | UKR | |
| North Caucasus | NCS | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Transcaucasus | TCS | |
| Türkiye | TUR |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 136 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -9.3 °C | -3.7 °C | 1.0 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 19.6 °C | 24.0 °C | 27.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 604 mm | 1,175 mm | 1,869 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 98 mm | 166 mm | 271 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 136 research-grade observations of Festuca heterophylla that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 30 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Festuca citardae Lojac.
- Festuca communis var. heterophylla (Lam.) Petif
- Festuca duriuscula var. heterophylla (Lam.) St.-Amans
- Festuca heterophylla f. leiophylla (Hack.) Beldie
- Festuca heterophylla subsp. braun-blanquetii Fuente, Ortúñez & Ferrero Lom.
- Festuca heterophylla var. erecta Peterm.
- Festuca heterophylla var. homophylla Schur
- Festuca heterophylla var. hostii Duby
- Festuca heterophylla var. lamarckii Duby
- Festuca heterophylla var. laxa Neilr.
- Festuca heterophylla var. leiophylla (Hack.) K.Richt.
- Festuca heterophylla var. major Merino
- Festuca heterophylla var. nutans Peterm.
- Festuca heterophylla var. puberula Parl.
- Festuca heterophylla var. robusta Erdner
- Festuca heterophylla var. sordida Schur
- Festuca heterophylla var. vulpioides (Hack.) Nyman
- Festuca heterophylla var. weighartii Podp.
- Festuca nemorosa Latourr.
- Festuca nemorum Leyss.
- Festuca nemorum var. villosum Klett & Richt.
- Festuca rubra subsp. heterophylla (Lam.) Hack.
- Festuca rubra subsp. nemorum (Leyss.) Schübl. & G.Martens
- Festuca rubra subvar. leiophylla Hack.
and 6 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.