| Scientific Name: | Festuca arundinacea |
| Common Name: | tall fescue |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | x (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green, Lawn - sports field |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Linear, Ciliate |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Green-yellow, May |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Habit bunching (tufted), +/- short rhizomes; leaf vernation rolled, blade flat and stiff, sharply pointed blade 3-12mm wide, strongly veined upper surface, strong midrib, lower surface keeled and slightly glossy, rough edges, sharp tip, auricles very small (or absent), rounded, pubescent (few trichomes on collar), ligule mostly 0.4-1.2mm, smooth edged, with few trichomes; sheath round but keeled near top, glabrous, often reddish at base. Field ID terms: wide, stiff, ridges, rolled. | |