Tall fescue
Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.7 m
- wide
- —
Poaceae
Formerly Bromus arundinaceus, Festuca arundinacea, Schedonorus arundinaceus
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Xinjiang and Himalaya, Macaronesia to N. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 1.7 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Czech
- kostřava rákosovitá
- German
- Rohr-Schwingel, Rohrschwingel
- Chinese
- 苇状羊茅, 葦狀羊茅
- Finnish
- ruokonata
- French
- Fétuque élevée, Fétuque faux roseau, fétuque roseau
- Macedonian
- Барски виук
- Dutch
- rietzwenkgras, Rietzwenkgras
- Simplified Chinese
- 苇状羊茅
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Lolium arundinaceum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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