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Poaceae
Wood fescue
Festuca altissima
Also known as Sylvan fescue, Forest fescue, Fescue grass, Schedonorus alpinus
Native Plants · Ornamental Grass · Shade Tolerant · Woodland · Ground Cover · Fescue · Perennial · Cool Season Grass · European Native · Low Maintenance
Wood fescue is a shade-tolerant ornamental grass well suited to woodland gardens and underplanting beneath trees. It prefers consistently moist, humus-rich soil and partial shade, making it an excellent low-maintenance ground cover. Once established, it requires minimal intervention beyond occasional watering during dry spells.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; keep soil evenly moist but not waterlogged · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Temperature
- -30°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 6 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland
- Attracts
- Birds, Bees
Sources: trefle, usda
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