Festuca quadrifloraHonck.

WFO wfo-0000871778 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Festuca quadriflora, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-07-11 / obs. 77829250
Festuca quadriflora, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80084588
Festuca quadriflora, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. c Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139760662
Festuca quadriflora, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77829151
Festuca quadriflora, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80084697
Festuca quadriflora, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. f Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139760632
Festuca quadriflora, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. g Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77829606
Festuca quadriflora, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. h Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139760721

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04243873
Filed as
Festuca quadriflora Walter
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Festuca quadriflora is native: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Spain, Switzerland AustriaFranceGermanyItalyNW. Balkan Pen.SpainSwitzerland
Native distribution of Festuca quadriflora, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
France FRA
Germany GER
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI

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.

Also published as 18 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 gussonei Lojac.
  • Festuca hackeliana Zapał.
  • Festuca pumila Chaix
  • Festuca pumila var. elatior Mutel
  • Festuca pumila var. hackeliana (Zapał.) Beldie
  • Festuca pumila var. jaccardii (St.-Yves) Litard.
  • Festuca pumila var. negrii Goiran
  • Festuca pumila var. rigidior Mutel
  • Festuca pumila var. wilczecziana (St.-Yves) Litard.
  • Festuca rigidior (Mutel) K.Richt.
  • Festuca varia subsp. pumila (Vill.) Hack.
  • Festuca varia var. jaccardii St.-Yves
  • Festuca varia var. minor Neilr.
  • Festuca varia var. villarsii St.-Yves
  • Festuca varia var. wilczecziana St.-Yves
  • Festuca varia var. wilczekiana St.-Yves
  • Schedonorus pumilus (Chaix) Roem. & Schult.
  • Tragus pumilus Panz.

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. 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.

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