| Scientific Name: | Festuca rubra |
| Common Name: | creeping red fescue |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x < 0.1m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green, Green roof technology |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Acicular, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Best mowed 5-8cm tall; bunching, thatchy, aggressive, to form low, dense mats or sod habit, rhizomes short, culms bent; leaf vernation folded but hard to see (bristle-like leaves), blade slightly folded, <2mm wide, deeply ridged on upper surface (heavily veined), tips rounded and not boat-shapes; auricles absent; ligule <0.3mm, truncate; sheath base reddish, round to very slightly compressed, wider than blade. | |