This is a cool season tufted perennial grass has course textured medium to dark green lanced-shaped leaves that are not suitable for low cutting and the greenish flowers appear in a nodding cluster above the foliage during summer.

Hardiness zones 7 to 9

Festuca arundinaceais naturally found in Europe growing in an open sunny to semi-shaded position in a well drained medium fertile moist light loam with a pH 4.7-8.5. It is frost and mildly drought tolerant and has good wear tolerance.

Tall Fescue is a long lived grass that is well suited to cool areas and is used in domestic gardens or playgrounds and parks. It is also used on roadway embankments and under trees, tolerating some shade. During the growing period it requires reliable moisture and can be over-sow during spring to improve density.ID 685

Festuca(fes-TOO-ka) arundinacea(a-RUN-din-AH-see-ah)

Poaceae(poh_AY-see-ee)
Grass Family