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|accepted_name=Vulpia myuros
|accepted_authority=(L.) C.C. Gmel.
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|common_names=Foxtail fescue;Rattail fescue
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|name=Festuca myuros
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Vulpia;Vulpia myuros
|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>[[Vulpia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Vulpia myuros]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 449
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>10-75(90) cm, solitary or loosely tufted, branched or unbranched distally. <b>Sheaths</b> usually glabrous; ligules 0.3-0.5 mm; blades 2.4-10.5(17) cm long, 0.4-3 mm wide, usually rolled, occasionally flat, usually glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3-25 cm long, 0.5-1.5(2) cm wide, dense panicles or spikelike racemes, with 1 branch per node, often partially enclosed in the uppermost sheaths at maturity, pulvini absent; branches spreading or appressed to erect. <b>Spikelets</b> 5-12 mm, with 3-7 florets; rachilla internodes 0.75-1(1.9) mm. <b>Glumes</b> glabrous; lower glumes 0.5-2 mm, 1/5- 1/2 the length of the upper glumes; upper glumes 2.5-5.5 mm; lemmas 4.5-7 mm, 5-veined, usually scabrous distally, glabrous except the margins sometimes ciliate, apices entire, awns 5-15(22) mm; paleas 4.7-6.4 mm, minutely bifid; anthers 0.5-1(2) mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 3-5 mm, fusiform, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 14 [f. myuros], 42 [f. myuros and f. megalura].</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;D.C;Wis.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Idaho;Oreg.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Calif.;Nev.;Va.;B.C.;Ont.;Yukon;Alaska;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Vulpia myuros</i> grows in well-drained, sandy soils and disturbed sites. It is native to Europe and North Africa. <i>Vulpia myuros</i> f. megalura (Nutt.) Stace & R. Cotton differs from <i>Vulpia myuros</i> (L.) C.C. Gmel. f. myuros in having ciliate lemma margins. It was once thought to be native to North America, but it occurs throughout the European and North African range of f. myuros, even in undisturbed areas.</p>
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|authority=(L.) C.C. Gmel.
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|synonyms=Festuca myuros
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;D.C;Wis.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Idaho;Oreg.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Calif.;Nev.;Va.;B.C.;Ont.;Yukon;Alaska;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Vulpia
|species=Vulpia myuros
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