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especially in Tennessee, Missouri, and eastern Kansas. There are two 

 agricultural varieties of this species. The taller form with larger 

 more open panicle is distinguished as tall fescue. The form more 



FIG. 6. Red fescue, Festuca rubra. Plant, X 1 ; spikelet and floret, x 5. 



