| Scientific Name: | Festuca longifolia |
| Common Name: | hard fescue, fine fescue |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | x (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green |
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| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Dark-red, Brown, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Bunch-type growth habit, +/-rhizomes, short stolons; leaf vernation folded, blades about 1m wide sharply pointed, bristle-like, top prominently ridged; auricles absent; ligule <0.6mm or absent; sheath split, margins overlap, sometimes hairy reddish base. Field ID terms: needle-like, wiry, narrow, bristly, round. | |