Blue Fescue

Festuca glauca Poaceae

Other names

Grey Fescue

Growth habit

Grass/Sedge

Perennation

Perennial

Native distribution

Europe

Location

Heasley Rock Garden

Source of plant

North American Rock Garden Society

Description

To 40 cm although usually far shorter. Culms upright, flimsy, densely tufted, blue-greem. Leaves glabrous, glaucous, blue-green, the blades filiform, terete, obtuse, rigid, straight to arching, 9-ribbed. Panicles dense, obovate, shortly branched, erect, 10 cm tall, blue-green.

USDA Hardiness Zone

5