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Festuca brevipila, the hard fescue, is a species of grass which can be found everywhere in Canada and in both Eastern and Central United States (except for Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota). [1] The species derives its common name by virtue of being the "hardiest" of the fescue family. It does well in poor soils and is ...
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 ]
Breton fescue Festuca armoricana: Huon's fescue Festuca huonii: Confused fescue Festuca lemanii: Blue fescue Festuca longifolia: Hard fescue Festuca brevipila: Perennial rye-grass Lolium perenne: Italian rye-grass Lolium multiflorum * Dune fescue Vulpia fasciculata: Squirreltail fescue Vulpia bromoides: Rat's-tail fescue Vulpia myuros: Bearded ...
Sheep's fescue is a densely tufted perennial grass. Its greyish-green leaves are short and bristle-like. The panicles are both slightly feathery and a bit one-sided. It flowers from May until June, and is wind-pollinated. It has no rhizomes. Sheep's fescue is a drought-resistant grass, commonly found on poor, well-drained mineral soil.
Leaves span about 4 to 10 inches (10 to 25 cm) long and 3 to 10 millimetres (0.12 to 0.39 in) wide, lacking hairs, slightly rough to smooth, has 9 to 35 veins with midvein most prominent and is flat.
Festuca saximontana, the rocky mountain fescue or the mountain fescue, is a perennial grass native to North America. The specific epithet saximontana is Latin and means "of the Rocky Mountains ". The grass has a diploid number of 42.
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.
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]