Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
Red fescue is a fine-textured, rhizomatous cool-season grass used as a native turf and meadow grass, tolerating shade, salt, and a wide range of soils.
- Family
- Poaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, CA, CO, CT, HI, ID, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY