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Festuca longifolia

blue fescue

Other common names
hard fescue
Synonyms
Festuca glauca 'Pallens'

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Botanical details
Family
Poaceae
Native to the UK
No
Genus

Festuca

Genus description

Festuca can be herbaceous or evergreen, rhizomatous grasses with linear, often strikingly coloured, leaves, and dense or lax panicles of brownish flowers in summer

Name status

Correct

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