| Scientific Name: | Festuca idahoensis |
| Common Name: | Idaho fescue, blue bunchgrass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (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, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tufted upright formal clumps 30-40(-60) cm tall and wide, nodes visible; leaf blades linear, most 10-30cm long x 1-1.8mm wide, usually green to greenish-gray (also bluish cultivars), smooth, tightly in-rolled (almost needle-like) and erect or slightly arching, evergreen; flowers dense, shortly branched panicles of spikelets early to midsummer. | |