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Poaceae
Red fescue
Festuca rubra
Also known as Festuca rubra f. glabra, Festuca rubra subvar. magnelii, Festuca kitaibeliana, Festuca rivularis subsp. pseudorivularis
Native Plants · Fescue · Grass · Lawn · Drought-Tolerant · Fine-Texture · Cool-Season · Low-Maintenance · Turf · Dense
Red fescue is a fine-textured, drought-tolerant grass ideal for low-maintenance lawns and naturalized areas. It establishes slowly but forms a dense, durable turf that requires minimal watering once mature. This cool-season grass performs best in full sun and tolerates poor soils better than most lawn grasses.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 8 hours
- Watering
- Light, frequent watering during establishment, then minimal supplemental irrigation · Weekly during establishment, drought tolerant when mature
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5–8
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 12 in
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Shallow
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Amur, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium
Sources: trefle, usda
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