| Scientific Name: | Festuca longifolia |
| Common Name: | hard fescue, fine 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 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Erosion control, Golf green |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Dark-red, Brown, May-Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| 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. | |