Red fescue (Festuca rubra) is a popular cool-season grass for lawns across the United States, but especially for shadier lawns or cooler climates. This species is quick to establish and can form a ...

Hard fescue (Festuca trachyphylla) is an ideal grass species to use around tree roots because it will out-compete weeds to help choke them out, thanks to its dense growth pattern. Hard fescue also ...

Zoysia grass shares some characteristics with St. Augustine grass. It’s slow growing, prefers full sun, and produces stiff, ...

Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea ... color during the winter months when warm-season turf grasses are dormant and brown. All of the species adapted to South Carolina can be planted by seed ...

Fine-leaf Fescues - (FF) Festuca spp. Fine-leaf fescue, or fine fescue, is an umbrella term to describe 5 species of grasses that all look very similar and identification is usually only possible by ...

commutata), hard fescue (Festuca longifolia ... Lawn seed mixtures are usually blends of different types of grass. That is because different grasses are adapted to different conditions in the ...

Although many gardeners think of grass as that plant that has to mowed every week, there are many species of grass that rival any ... but shatter easily when used for dried arrangements. Dwarf blue ...

Cool season grasses will put on vigorous ... irrigation and fertility additions. Tall fescue (festuca arundinacea) is a durable turfgrass species that requires less water and fertilizer than ...

Slobber from moose reduced toxin concentrations in red fescue grass (Festuca rubra) — but only in plants originating from the core of the species range in Europe. Fungi in grass from the water ...

Hamilton reached through a thick mass of bluestem and pointed to two diminutive, green plants: wild rye and a sedge species, cool-season grasses that provide a native analogue to fescue — and ...