Plant Details

Accepted name:: Festuca subverticillata (Pers.) E.B.Alexeev [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
nodding fescue	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 17 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Festuca nutans subsp. palustris Muhl. ex Piper Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 10: 34 (1906), pro syn.
Festuca obtusa Biehler Pl. Nov. Herb. Spreng.: 11 (1807).
Festuca obtusa f. pilosifolia Dore Naturaliste Canad. 103: 560 (1976).
Festuca obtusa var. sprengeliana St.-Yves Candollea 2: 276 (1925), not validly publ.
Festuca pseudoduriuscula Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 312 (1854).
Festuca subverticillata f. pilosifolia (Dore) Darbysh. Phytologia 82: 77 (1997).
Panicum debile Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 4: 283 (1816), nom. illeg.
Panicum divaricatum Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 50 (1803), nom. illeg.
Panicum gracilentum Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 4: 276 (1816).
Panicum patentissimum Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 2: 448 (1817), nom. illeg.
Poa brachiata Desv. Mém. Soc. Agric. Angers 1: 204 (1831).
Poa festucoides Torr. in A.Eaton, Man. Bot. N. States, ed. 2: 367 (1818), nom. illeg.
Poa laxa Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 183 (1791), nom. illeg.
Poa melicoidea Link Hort. Berol. 1: 186 (1827).
Poa subverticillata Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 92 (1805).
Schedonorus obtusus (Biehler) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 2: 710 (1817).
Steinchisma divaricatum Raf. ex B.D.Jacks. Index Kew. 2: 982 (1895), pro syn.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Festuca subverticillata (Pers.) Alexeev	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Festuca subverticillata (Pers.) E.B.Alexeev	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Festuca subverticillata (Persoon) E.B. Alexeev	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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