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 1mm wide; flowers dense, shortly branched panicles of spikelets early to midsummer.
Habit:
Dense, Spreading, Stiffly upright
Form:
Mounded
Texture:
Fine
Mature Height:
0.2 - 0.4m
Mature Spread:
0.6 - 1.0m
Growth Rate:
Moderate
Origin:
Europe
Hardiness Rating:
Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Exposure:
Full sun
Soil/Growing Medium:
Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Water Use:
Moderate, Low
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 Summer:
Bluish, cv. 'Golden Toupee' has golden-green leaves and tan flowers, a much smaller plant than the species ( to15-20cm high) cv. 'Pepindale Blue' is similiar to the species but with intense blue foliage
Colour in Fall:
Bluish
Shapes:
Filiform, Linear
Apices:
Attenuate
Bases:
Sheathing
Margins:
Entire
Additional Info:
9 major veins
Course(s):
- HORT 1155
- Level 3 Apprenticeship
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
- (GAZW) GAZebo West : q.3 clumps
- (GRB) GRass Bed
- (MCC) Main Campus Courtyard