Fescue
Prepared by Jennifer L. D’Appollonio, Assistant Scientist, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. April 2011.
Scientific name: Festuca spp.
Common name(s): fescue
Link(s): USDA PLANTS Profile, Go Botany
Images: (to see enlargements [PC]: click on image, then right click and choose “view image”)
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- Festuca species “A” showing immature flower, early June
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- stem detail of Festuca species A
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- Festuca species “B”, pre-flower early June
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- leaf detail of Festuca species B
Description:
– perennial
-tufted
-height of 10-20 cm
-propagates from seed and rhizomes
-fibrous root system
-most leaf blades are rolled
-inflorescence
-several flowered spikelets
-utilized worldwide
Acknowledgement(s):
Oregon State University. “Genus Festuca: The Fescues.” Forage Information System, Department of Crop and Soil Science , 15 Jan. 2016, forages.oregonstate.edu/tallfescuemonograph/Morphology/relationships/genus.
Eric T. Doucette, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Biology, MA College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA (updated Feb 2018)