Bulletin #2269, Maine Forage Facts: Tall Fescue (PDF) By Jaime Garzon, Assistant Extension Professor and Forage Educator, University of Maine Cooperative Extension For information about UMaine Extension programs and resources, visit extension.umaine.edu.Find more of our publications and books at extension.umaine.edu/publications/. Tall Fescue Tall fescue seedhead. Tall fescue [Schenodorus arundinaceus (Schreb.) Dumort] is a high-productive grass