If it's not dealing with disease and heat stress, tall fescue is a fast-growing grass that can end up requiring mowing as often as twice a week to keep it at a height of 2 to 3 inches.

Fescue toxicosis (toxicosis is any disease condition due to poisoning) is caused when tall fescue (<i>Festuca arundinacaea</i>) becomes infected with the mold <i>Acremonium coenophialum</i>.

If you’re having trouble getting grass to grow in a shady area of your yard, your best option may be a cool-season grass called tall fescue. However, tall fescue must receive at least three to ...

R ed 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 ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue ...

Tall fescue is a coarse-textured grass, often used as a primary turf species. Tall fescue infestations often result from contamination in a lower quality seed source.

Tall fescue is a sod-forming grass with a thick, matted growth form which is extremely limiting to the movement of wildlife such as quail and rabbits.

Q • My tall fescue lawn looks pretty beat up and thin. ... as tall fescue is a clumping grass and doesn’t have the ability to spread laterally to fill bare areas like Kentucky bluegrass does.

Yellow nutsedge and tall fescue are two weeds that are difficult to confuse for one another, except for one characteristic they have in common. Both grow faster than Kentucky bluegrass and so they ...

In addition to a positive control of non-toxic fescue seed, researchers offered lambs diets with toxic fescue seed with no red clover extract or toxic fescue with 0.33, 0.67, or 1% of the diet as ...

America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east.