The First Record for Altai Fescue, Festuca altaica (Poaceae), in Nova Scotia, from an Eastern Alpine Site on Cape Breton Island

Auteurs-es

  • Stephen Darbyshire Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Ottawa Research and Development Centre 960 Carling Avenue, Wm. Saunders Building, #49 Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6
  • Sean Blaney Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, P.O. Box 6416, Sackville, New Brunswick, E4L 1G6
  • Sean Basquill 3Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources - Wildlife Division, 136 Exhibition Street Kentville, Nova Scotia, B4N 4E5

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v131i2.1861

Mots-clés :

Altai Fescue, Festuca altaica, conservation, rare plants, floristics, alpine vegetation, Nova Scotia

Résumé

Altai Fescue, Festuca altaica Trinius, is an amphi-Beringian grass species also known from isolated, but widespread, locations in northeastern North America. The occurrence reported here, at the southern limit of eastern alpine habitat in Canada, represents the first for Nova Scotia.

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2017-11-03

Numéro

Vol. 131 No. 2 (2017)

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