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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 californica (California fescue) Festuca glauca (blue fescue, grey fescue, ornamental blue fescue grass) - many cultivars [6] Festuca idahoensis (Idaho fescue, blue bunchgrass) Festuca ovina (sheep's fescue) - many cultivars [6] Festuca rubra (creeping fescue grass, red fescue, red fescue grass) - many cultivars [6]
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 ]
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.
Creeping Bent (Agrostis stolonifera) Tall Fescue (Festuca arundinacea) Red Fescue (Festuca rubra) No rare species are associated with this community. Distribution
Festuca rubra subsp. commutata, commonly known as Chewing's fescue, [1] is a subspecies of grass. It is a perennial plant very common in lawns throughout Europe . The plant features filamentous leaves, with the leaf rolled in the shoot.
Alopecurus arundinaceus, the creeping meadow foxtail or creeping foxtail, [4] is a rhizomatous perennial species in the Grass family . Native to Eurasia and northern Africa, and widely introduced elsewhere, this sod forming grass is useful as a forage and for erosion control. [5] It flowers between April and July, depending on its location.