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|accepted_name=Leucopoa kingii
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) W.A. Weber
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|common_names=Spike fescue;Spikegrass;Watson's fescue-grass;King's fescue
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hesperocbloa kingii
|authority=
|rank=species
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|name=Festuca kingii
|authority=
|rank=species
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|name=Festuca confinis
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Leucopoa;Leucopoa kingii
|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>[[Leucopoa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leucopoa kingii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 445
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>unisexual; cespitose, rhizomatous (rhizomes usually absent from herbarium specimens). <b>Culms</b> 30-100(120) cm. <b>Sheaths</b> persisting, closed only at the base, glabrous, smooth or the lowest sometimes retrorsely scabrous; ligules 0.8-2(4) mm, truncate, erose-ciliate; blades 14-40(50) cm long, 1.5-7(10) mm wide, blades of the flag leaves often shorter, erect, somewhat stiff, flat or loosely convolute, glabrous, sometimes glaucous, abaxial surfaces usually smooth, rarely scabrous, adaxial surfaces sometimes somewhat scabrous or hirsute. <b>Panicles</b> 7-22 cm; branches erect or sometimes spreading, smooth or somewhat scabrous, spikelet-bearing to the base. <b>Spikelets</b> 6-12 mm long, 2.5-4.5 mm wide, staminate spikelets tending to be larger than pistillate spikelets, with (2)3-4(6) florets. <b>Glumes</b> usually unequal, sometimes subequal (especially in staminate spikelets) ovate or ovate-lanceolate (especially in pistillate spikelets) to lanceolate (especially in staminate spikelets), smooth or somewhat scabrous; lower glumes 3-5.5(6.5) mm, 1-veined; upper glumes 4-6.5(7.5) mm, shorter than or, particularly in staminate spikelets, equal to the lowest lemma, 1-3-veined; calluses wider than long, blunt; lemmas 4.5-8(10) mm, scabrous or hirsute, apices entire, acute, unawned or subterminally mucronate, mucro shorter than 1 mm; paleas 4.4-7(9) mm, scabrous or hirsute between the veins and on the margins; lodicules 1-2.6 mm; anthers (2.5)3.5-5(6) mm in staminate plants, vestigial and not functional in pistillate plants; ovaries in pistillate plants with pubescent apices and adjacent style bases, ovaries in staminate plants vestigial and non-functional. <b>Caryopses</b> fusiform, 3.5-5 mm long, 1.3-1.7 mm wide. <b>2n</b> = 56.</span><!--

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|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Calif.;Nebr.;Oreg.;Kans.;Mont.;Wyo.;Idaho;Nev.;S.Dak.
|discussion=<p><i>Leucopoa kingii</i> grows from Oregon and Montana to Nebraska, south to southern California and northern New Mexico. It occurs in habitats from dry sagebrush plains to subalpine meadows, at 1700-3600 m. Although palatable to livestock in the early part of the season, <i>L. kingii</i> is only occasionally abundant enough to be an important forage species.</p>
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name=Leucopoa kingii
|authority=(S. Watson) W.A. Weber
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Hesperocbloa kingii;Festuca kingii;Festuca confinis
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Calif.;Nebr.;Oreg.;Kans.;Mont.;Wyo.;Idaho;Nev.;S.Dak.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Leucopoa
|species=Leucopoa kingii
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