Scientific Name:	Festuca glauca
Pronunciation:	fess-TEW-kuh GLAW-kuh
Common Name:	blue fescue, blue sheep fescue
Family Name:	Poaceae
Plant Type:	Poales (grass-like)
Key ID Features:	Small, tufted mounds; leaves blue-green, smooth, tightly in-rolled (almost needle-like) and erect or slightly arching, evergreen, about 1 mm wide; flowers dense, shortly branched panicles of spikelets early to midsummer.
Course(s):	HORT 1155, Level 2 Apprenticeship

Habit: Dense, Spreading, Stiffly upright Form: Mounded Texture: Fine Mature Size: Height: 0.2 - 0.4m Spread: 0.6 - 1.0m Growth Rate: Moderate Origin: Europe Hardiness Rating: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 C) Exposure: Full sun Soil/ Growing Medium: Well-drained Water Use: Low, Moderate Landscape Uses: Accent plant, Container planting, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest Additional Info: Google. Cultivars shown or on campus may include F. ‘Golden Toupee'.

Leaf Morphology: Form: Grass-like Arrangement: Alternate, Basal Texture/ Venation: Parallel venation Surfaces: Glabrous Colour in Fall: Bluish Leaf(let) Terms: Shapes: Filiform, Linear Apices: Attenuate Bases: Sheathing Margins: Entire Additional Info: 9 major veins

Inflorescence Type: Floriferous, Spikelet Flower Morphology: Colour (petals): Showy, Violet, Blue, Green, Yellow, (blue-green with yellow anthers) Flower Scent: None Flower Time at Peak: Jun, Jul, Aug

Fruit Type: Grain (caryopsis) Fruit Colour: Brown Fruiting Time: Sep, Oct

Bark or Stem Colour:     Organ Modifications: Fleshy monocot roots

Propagation:	Seed, Division - below ground parts
Pest Susceptibility:	Deer resistant, Anthracnose, Rust

Location(s): (BCE) Boulevard (Circular) Eastend (BCW) Boulevard (Circular) Westend : cv. Boarder Blue, on green wall (BKW) Boulevard Kwantlen Way (BUG) BUG garden (GAZ) GAZebo (GAZN) GAZebo North (MCC) Main Campus Courtyard Location Map

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