Festuca heterophylla Lam.

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Plants of MEXICO
No. 2763 Festuca hephaestophila Steud
Edo. Puebla [ca. 100 m. W of border with Edo,
Veracruz], Mun. Ciudad Serdan, around and
above mountaineering shelter "Piedra Grande"
on N slope of Pico de Orizaba.
19o03'N, 97°16'W alt. 4100-4200 m.
ZACATONAL vegetation: Sparse cover of alpine
bunch grasses and mat plants (no vascular
plants go above 4300 m. on trail to base of
glacier at 4530 m.), very rocky, about 200 m
above tree line.
BOTANICAL
New York Botanical
Inflorescence purplish
17743a*)