© Matt Lavin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wikimedia Commons — CC, credited & licensed per image
Poaceae family
Sixweeks Fescue Vulpia octoflora
Native
Also known as: Pullout Grass · Six Weeks Fescue · Sixweeks Grass
Sixweeks Fescue is an annual grass native to Canada and the lower 48 states. It grows to 1.3 ft and blooms May – Jun.
Growing & care
USDA PLANTS · TRY Conditions
Sources · Conditions
Cold hardiness (derived) — Hardiness
- Hardiness
- ≥ zone 4 derived from its U.S. range
Size & form
Sources · Size & form
TRY Plant Trait Database (CC BY 4.0) — Height · Foliage
USDA PLANTS — Lifespan
- Height
- 1.3 ft
- Lifespan
- Annual
- Foliage
- Broadleaf
In the garden
Herb layer — Sits in the herb of a layered food forest or polyculture.Open guide →
derived roles The garden year bloom → fruit → fall colour
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Bloom
Bloom (the flower's colour)
Bloom · May – Jun — 27 obs · USA-NPN — Nature's Notebook (CC BY 4.0)
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a
guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.
Wildlife & pollinators
How pollinator value is scored →❧ Caterpillar hosts Documented caterpillar host
Recorded feeding on Vulpia in North America, including:
Named species (a documented Nearctic sample, not exhaustive) from NHM HOSTS (CC0).
Wildlife & visitors 2 birds
Open records of who else uses Sixweeks Fescue — a generalist food-web signal, kept separate from the keystone Ecological Value.
Recorded eaten by 2 birds species (fruit, seed, browse):
Interaction records (observations, not exhaustive) from
GloBI → (CC0). Counts are distinct species; names are the most-recorded. Common names from Wikidata (CC0).
Species thumbnails re-hosted from iNaturalist — Creative Commons, credited per image (hover for credit). Click any species to see it on iNaturalist. Not exhaustive; many taxa have no openly-licensed photo yet.
Related plants
More Vulpia →
Native
Small Fescue
Vulpia microstachys
●○○○○ 
Native
Squirreltail Fescue
Vulpia elliotea
●○○○○ 
Native
Annual Fescue
Vulpia myuros
●○○○○ 
Native
Brome Fescue
Vulpia bromoides
●○○○○ 
Native
Fringed Fescue
Vulpia ciliata
●○○○○ Same genus / family, ranked by ecological value — from the PlantKey catalog
Sources for this entry (17) Open & cited
[01] Scientific name & family — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[02] Growth habit & duration — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[03] Native status & distribution — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[04] Common name — USDA PLANTS (via GBIF)
[05] Invasive / introduced status — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — native status
[06] Wetland indicator — USACE National Wetland Plant List (2022)
[07] Photos — Wikimedia Commons — CC, credited per image
[08] Ecological value — GloBI
[09] Bloom period — USA-NPN — Nature's Notebook (CC BY 4.0)
[10] Conservation rank — NatureServe Explorer (CC BY)
[11] Foliage — TRY Plant Trait Database (CC BY 4.0)
[12] Height — TRY Plant Trait Database (CC BY 4.0)
[13] Functional traits — TRY Plant Trait Database (CC BY 4.0)
[14] Cold hardiness (derived) — Derived from U.S. range × USDA PHZM zones
[15] Wildlife & visitors — GloBI — Global Biotic Interactions (CC0)
[16] Other common names — Wikidata (CC0)
[17] Caterpillar species — NHM HOSTS (CC0)
Spot an error or have a better photo? Every field links to its source, and the whole dataset is open.
Cite this page Open data, please attribute
PlantKey’s data is open under CC BY-SA 4.0 — free to reuse and adapt, with attribution and the same licence. Photos keep their own per-image licence + credit (see Sources above).
Citation
Loading…
BibTeX
Loading…