Festuca pulchraSchur

pseudovina

WFO wfo-0000871741 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Festuca pulchra, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. a Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / 2021-05-21 / obs. 130435772
Festuca pulchra, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. b Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 130435778
Festuca pulchra, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. c Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / obs. 130435784

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Festuca pulchra is native: Altay, Buryatiya, China South-Central, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, North Caucasus, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Austria, Belarus, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Hungary, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaChina South-CentralIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskManchuriaNorth CaucasusTibetTurkmenistanUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangAustriaBelarusCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyHungaryNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Festuca pulchra, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China South-Central CHC
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
North Caucasus NCS
Tibet CHT
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Austria AUT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR

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 41 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.1 °C -4.4 °C -3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.4 °C 25.8 °C 27.4 °C
Annual rainfall 362 mm 579 mm 692 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 58 mm 97 mm 117 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 41 research-grade observations of Festuca pulchra 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 25 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 boghisensis Prodan
  • Festuca compressa Kit.
  • Festuca duriuscula subsp. parviflora Hack.
  • Festuca duriuscula var. tenuis Hack.
  • Festuca ovina subvar. salina A.Kern. ex Hack.
  • Festuca ovina var. dura Hack.
  • Festuca ovina var. pseudovina (Hack. ex Wiesb.) Hack.
  • Festuca pseudovina Hack. ex Wiesb.
  • Festuca pseudovina f. angustiflora (Hack.) Reverd.
  • Festuca pseudovina f. barbulata Nyár.
  • Festuca pseudovina f. capillifolia Reverd.
  • Festuca pseudovina f. ciliata Reverd.
  • Festuca pseudovina f. compacta Reverd.
  • Festuca pseudovina f. gracilior Reverd.
  • Festuca pseudovina f. hirtiflora Borbás
  • Festuca pseudovina f. subpruinosa Borbás
  • Festuca pseudovina var. minutiflora Reverd.
  • Festuca pseudovina var. rutila Hack. ex Jáv.
  • Festuca racemosa Kit.
  • Festuca sulcata var. angustiflora Hack.
  • Festuca valesiaca f. krajinae Soó
  • Festuca valesiaca subsp. parviflora (Hack.) R.Tracey
  • Festuca valesiaca subsp. pseudovina (Hack. ex Wiesb.) Hegi
  • Festuca valesiaca var. pseudovina (Hack. ex Wiesb.) Schinz & R.Keller

and 1 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol FEPS4. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.