| Scientific Name: | Festuca glauca |
| Common Name: | blue fescue, blue sheep fescue |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Basal, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Filiform, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tufted dome-shaped mounds (porcupine-like), 15-25cm tall and wide; leaves blue-grey to silvery-blue, smooth, tightly in-rolled (almost needle-like) and erect or slightly arching, evergreen, (7-)12-17(-20)cm long x 0.6-1mm wide, most with 9 ribbed veins, sheaths closed about half their length, ligules 0.1-0.4mm long; inflorescence dense, rising 15-25cm above foliage, shortly branched panicles of spikelets 6-9mm long, early to midsummer. | |