Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Festuca altaica Trin.

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Festuca scabrella Torr.

Common names:

Altai fescue(Present) (50)

Buffalo bunch grass [Buffalo bunch-grass](1884-1896, MT) (45, 87)

Bunch grass(1857-1894, Pacific Northwest) (75, 87, 88, 161)

Great bunch grass [Great bunch-grass](1884-1901) (45, 56, 87)

Rough fescue(1942-1977) (31, 55)

Rough fescue grass(1913-1915, Neb) (5, 111)