Blue fescue
Festuca glauca Vill.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 24 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Poaceae
Also called Blue Fescue, Glaucous fescue
Formerly Festuca eragrostoides, Festuca strictifolia, Festuca veneris
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. Spain to NW. ItalyKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 23 cm to 25 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 9–12 in; Wikipedia 20–25 cm
- Spread
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension low; Wikipedia medium
- Flowers
- Purple, greenRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Hebrew
- בן-אפר מכחיל
- French
- Fétuque glauque, Fétuque bleue
- Dutch
- Blauw schapengras
- Chinese (China)
- 蓝羊茅
- Slovak
- kostrava sivá
- Russian
- Овсяница сизая
- Turkish
- Mavi Çim
- Lithuanian
- Melsvasis eraičinas
- Chinese
- 蓝羊茅
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Festuca glauca (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.