| Scientific Name: | Festuca ovina |
| Common Name: | sheep fescue, fine fescue |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green, Green roof technology |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Filiform |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Green-yellow, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Erect habit, 10-30cm tall, rhizomes and stolons absent; leaf vernation folded, blades bluish-green or greyish-green, bristle-like, 0.5-1.5mm wide, sharply pointed, top prominently ridged; sheaths split densely pubescent, margins overlap, sometimes hairy reddish base; auricles absent; ligules <0.3mm. | |