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Festuca rubra, as red fescue or creeping red fescue, is cultivated as an ornamental plant for use as a turfgrass and groundcover. It can be left completely unmowed, or occasionally trimmed for a lush meadow-like look. There are many subspecies, and many cultivars have been bred for the horticulture trade.
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 ]
Red Fescue (Festuca rubra) Buck's-horn Plantain (Plantago coronopus) Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) Sea Plantain (Plantago maritima) Creeping Bent (Agrostis stolonifera) Five rare species are associated with this community: Purple Milk-vetch (Astragalus danicus) Purple Oxytropis (Oxytropus halleri) Scottish Primrose (Primula scotica)
The dominant grasses often include cock's-foot, yorkshire-fog, red fescue, meadow foxtail and - in certain situations - barren brome, upright brome, great brome or tall fescue. Amongst the grasses, and sometimes almost displacing them, can be hogweed , creeping thistle , knapweed or, in particular variants, wild parsnip , meadowsweet ...
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 following species in the grass genus Festuca, the fescues, are accepted by Plants of the World Online as of 2024. [1] This genus together with the ryegrass genus Lolium form the Festuca–Lolium complex known for its frequent hybridization, and which is further complicated by the presence of a fine-leaved fescue clade within Festuca that appears to be sister to a clade consisting of Lolium ...
The Boreal Shield ecozone is further divided into the Athabasca Plain and Churchill River Upland, and this area of Northern Saskatchewan has been described by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Midwestern Canadian Shield forests ecoregion. The Boreal Plains ecozone comprises the Mid-Boreal Upland, Mid-Boreal Lowland and Boreal Transition ...
Vulpia is a part of a group of species known as fescues; Vulpia is sometimes considered a subset of the main fescue genus, Festuca. Many of these fescues are considered noxious weeds in many places. [ 7 ]