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|accepted_name=Festuca paradoxa
|accepted_authority=Desv.
|publications=
|common_names=Cluster fescue
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Festuca shortii
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Festuca;Festuca paradoxa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Festuca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Festuca paradoxa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 402
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose, with¬out rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 50-120 cm, glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> closed for less than 1/3 their length, glab¬rous, shredding into fibers; Iigules (0.2)0.5-1.5 mm; blades 2-8 mm wide, flat or loosely convolute, smooth or scabrous, veins 9-35, ribs obscure; abaxial sclerenchyma in narrow strands; adaxial sclerenchyma developed; girders or pillars usually associated with the major veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> (5)10-20 cm, open, with 1-2 branches per node; branches lax, ascending to spreading, spikelets clustered towards the ends of the branches, closely imbricate. <b>Spikelets</b> 4-7(7.5) mm, elliptic to obovate, with 3-5(8) florets. <b>Glumes</b> lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, scabrous at least on the veins; lower glumes (2.5)3-4(5) mm, usually almost as long as the adjacent lemmas; upper glumes (3.5)4-5(5.5) mm; lemmas 4-5(5.2) mm, stiffly chartaceous, ovate to obovate, glabrous, somewhat acute, unawned; paleas as long as or slightly shorter than the lemmas, intercostal region smooth or scabrous distally; anthers (0.7)1-2(2.5) mm; ovary apices pubescent. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Kans.;Nebr.;Okla.;Minn.;Md.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Pa.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;Wis.;Ont.;Que.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p><i>Festuca paradoxa</i> grows in prairies, open woods, thickets, and low open ground, from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, south to northeastern Texas and northern Georgia. It resembles <i>F. subverticillata</i> (see previous), but its spikelets are more crowded on the branches.</p>
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name=Festuca paradoxa
|authority=Desv.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Festuca shortii
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Kans.;Nebr.;Okla.;Minn.;Md.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Pa.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;Wis.;Ont.;Que.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Festuca
|species=Festuca paradoxa
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