Festuca
Festuca amethystina
Genus: Festuca
Species: amethystina ...
Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'
Blue Fescue
Clumping deep sea blue foliage. The most heat tolerant or 'summer hardy'Fescue by leaps and bounds. Named by the late Lois Woodhall of the Plantage. Neat evergreen mounds with wheat inflorescences.
Festuca rubra 'Point Joe' (Point Joe Fescue) A small native California bunch grass to 6 inches tall clumping to 2 feet wide with very attractive narrow chalky blue leaf blades.
Festuca glauca is a well-behaved grass as long as you attend to deadheading. Otherwise, if you do not, be prepared to contend with many baby fescue seedlings.
Festuca arundinacea Schreb.
Synonyms
Festuca elatior L.Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh.Poa phoenix Scop.Schedonorus phoenix (Scop.) Holub.
#728 Festuca glauca
Common Names: blue fescue, gray fescue, garden fescue
Family: Poaceae/Gramineae (grass Family)
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Sheep Fescue, Blue Fescue, Green Fescue
Scientific Name: Festuca ovina L.
Synonym:
Family: Poaceae ...
Festuca rubra
Grains and Grasses
Cool-season grasses often used as part of turfgrass mixtures. Divide in fall or spring, or grow from seed sown outdoors in spring or late fall.
Festuca ovina glauca 'Sea Urchin' Grass, Blue Fescue 'Sea Urchin'
perennial, easy care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 4a thru 9b ...
Festuca is another perennial grass for use in containers and landscapes. It is distinguished by its blue grey leaves and it forms low tufts, 15 to 20cm high. It mostly likes full sun but there is a variety that prefers semi shade.
Fescue (Festuca ovina): Fine evergreen foliage forms a low rounded tuft 12 inches tall. This cool season grass grows best in the upper Piedmont in sun or part shade. Well-drained soil. Comb out dead leaves with gloves.
Festuca scoparia
Fetterbush (Leucothoe fontanesiana)
Feverfew (Chrysanthemum parthenium 'Golden Ball')
Feverfew (Chrysanthemum parthenium 'White Wonder')
Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium 'Feverfew')
Feverfew (Chrysanthemum parthenium) ...
Festuca californica (California Fescue)
Festuca idahoensis
Muhlenbergia rigens (Deer Grass)
Deschamsia cespitosa (Tufted Hair-grass)
Calamagrostis foliosa (Coastal or Leafy Reedgrass)
Panicum virgatum
Melica imperfecta
Agrostis nebulosa ...
Festuca Glauca Blue
Fountain Grass
There is a wide variety of both annual and perennial ornamental grasses. Chances are, there's a variety to accent the landscape theme you are seeking to create. Some grow just a foot tall.
Festuca arundinacea
(grass family)
TOXICITY RATING: Moderate to high, depending upon individual circumstance.
Festuca mairei
(Atlas fescue) Be the first to rate this plant
Hardiness Zones:
1 ...
Festuca ovina
25 centimetres, sun, dry to average soil, good drainage, Zone 5
Hakonechloa macra
50 centimetres, part shade, moist soil, Zone 4 ...
Festuca glauca
8-12"
Blue Fescue is a durable plant that grows in clumping mounds of fine blue foliage that tend to die out in the center after a couple years and will need to be divided ...
179/3850. Festuca (470: inc. Lolium), Poa (200), Stipa (300), Calamagrostis (230), Agrostis (220), Elymus (150), Bromus (100). Largely North Temperate.
1. Brachyelytreae Ohwi
Stomata subsidiary cells with parallel sides; n = 11.
Blue fescue (Festuca ovina var. glauca) is a cool season, clump-forming perennial grass that grows about 10 inches tall and wide. The fine-textured leaves are thin and wiry and blue-gray in color.
Red Fescue ( Festuca rubra )
Red Fig Tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum )
Red Fir ( Abies magnifica ) ...
Fescue Grass (Festuca) - Annual and perennial grasses, containing few species for the garden.
Atlas fescue (Festuca mairei) rises above burgundy-copper foliage of Tradescantia 'Baby Bunny Bellies'.
NextGardening with ornamental grasses: Autumn allure
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Violet Fescue [English]: Festuca violacea
Violet Fleabane [English]: Erigeron pappochromus
Violet Four O'clock [English]: Mirabilis violacea
Violet Glow Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Violet Glow' ...
Blue Festuca cinerea
Filbert
European Filbert, Hazelnut Corylus avellana
Contorted Filbert, Harry Lauder's Walking Stick Corylus avellana ‘Contorta'
Fir
Balsam Abies balsamea
Dwarf Balsam Abies balsamea‘Nana'
China Cunninghamia lanceolata ...
red fescue Festuca rubra
red ginger Alpinia purpurata
red sandal wood, coralwood Adenanthera pavonina
red sepal evening primrose Oenothera glazioviana
red sorrel Rumex acetosella
red star-thistle Centaurea calcitrapa
red valerian Centranthus ruber ...
Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue': One of the bluest of fescues, 'Elijah Blue' forms a spiky dome. Trim back every few years in March to get rid of dead leaves. Height: 40cm (16in).
Example: Blue fescue (Festuca cinerea). MOUNDED Somewhat weeping; mounding foliage. Top growth covers lower leaves. Example: Black-flowering pennisetum (Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Moudry'). UPRIGHT Erect.
Festuca glauca creates spreading clumps of blue-grey grass and small sprays of beige coloured flowers in early summer.
Heathers Erica cornea has red, white or pink flowers and green or golden foliage.
Hebe H.
Miscanthus, Hordeum, Festuca, Pennisetum, to name a few, are all spectacular from late summer, with their ripened seed heads, and straw coloured foliage.
(fs´ky), any of some 100 species of introduced Old World grasses of the genus Festuca. Meadow fescue and tall, or reed, fescue are excellent forage crops and the Chewing's, red, and sheep fescues are planted for turf.
Festuca glauca (Blue Fescue)
Foeniculum vulgaris (Fennel)
Fritillaria sp. (Fritillaria)
Galanthus sp. (Snowdrop)
Gaura lindheimeri (Gaura)
Grevillea sp. (Grevillea)
Helianthus angustifolius (Swamp Sunflower)
Helleborus sp. and hybrids (Lenten Rose) ...
Only tough bunch grasses and festuca grows here. The sun's ultraviolet rays burn through the thin atmosphere during the day. At night the heat of the day escapes into the atmosphere and the temperatures go down to freezing.
Cheddar Pinks has glaucous blue-gray to blue-green evergreen foliage in prostrate form, which could be used as an edger, groundcover, or perennial for sunny sites, or to complement the blue-foliaged ornamental grasses (e.g. Festuca, Helictotrichon) ...
 See also: Grass, Fescue, Green, Grasses, Pink
  
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