Blue Fescue

Blue Fescue

Festuca glauca

Poaceae (Grass Family)

▲ ▼ mature, non-flowering blue fescue, about 12 inches tall and wide

▲ ▼ mature blue fescue with dried inflorescences

Festuca glauca: Blue Fescue

Location near campus: in ornamental grass bed toward southwest corner of Master Gardener areas north of Botanical Center Building in Nathanael Greene park at the Botanical Center; in Xeriscape Garden at corner of National and Linwood

• cool-season grass with very thin, blue-gray leaves about 8-12" long
• forms a mound of grass 8-12" high
• inflorescence a compressed panicle formed in early spring
• grows in sun to medium shade, needs well-drained soil and tolerates a higher pH
• can trim back to ground in fall or late winter to remove old foliage
• divide or move in early spring or fall