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Tall fescue is a long-lived tuft-forming perennial with erect to spreading hollow flowering stems up to about 165 cm (5'6") tall (exceptionally up to 200 cm) which are hairless (glabrous), including the leaf sheaths, but with a short (1.5 mm) ligule and slightly hairy (ciliate) pointed auricles that can wrap slightly around the stem. The leaf ...
Festuca (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of 10–200 cm (4–79 in) and a cosmopolitan distribution , occurring on every continent except Antarctica . [ 2 ]
Lolium giganteum, giant fescue, is a woodland grass that grows on neutral to base-rich soils, often near streams or other damp places. It is native to Europe and much ...
Buddleja globosa is a large shrub to 5 m (16 ft) tall, with grey fissured bark. The young branches are subquadrangular and tomentose, bearing sessile or subsessile lanceolate or elliptic leaves 5–15 cm long by 2–6 cm wide, glabrescent and bullate above and tomentose below.
Lolium pratense, meadow fescue is a perennial species of grass, which is often used as an ornamental in gardens, and is also an important forage crop. It grows in meadows, roadsides, old pastures, and riversides on moist, rich soils, especially on loamy and heavy soils.
Festuca kingii is a species of grass in the family Poaceae known by the common names spike fescue and King's fescue. It is native to the western United States from Oregon and California east to Nebraska and Kansas. [3] This grass is a clump-forming perennial growing from a rhizome. It produces erect stems up to a meter tall, or occasionally taller.
Festuca occidentalis is a tufted fescue that lacks rhizomes. The smooth and shiny culms are 50–110 cm (20–43 in) tall. Culms have two exposed nodes and have glabrous internodes. The shoots are intravaginal. The leaf sheaths are glabrescent and rounded with a prominent midvein.
Festuca altaica, also known as the altai fescue, or the northern rough fescue, is a perennial bunchgrass with a wide native distribution in the Arctic, from central Asia to eastern North America. It was first described in 1829 by Carl Bernhard von Trinius. [2] [3] It is under the synonym F. scabrella, the rough fescue. [4]