230 Festuca brachyphylla Schult.

This arctic-montane species is closely related to F. ovina. It has a circumpolar distribution (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 24 and map 17). Within its range subsp. saximontana (Rydb.) Hult. (N. America) and F. baffinensis Polun. (N. America and disjunctly in N. Siberia, Novaja Zemlja and Spitsbergen) occur.