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Blue fescue
Festuca glauca
Growing guidance
Horticultural figures below are practitioner estimates for planning, pending expert review. The botanical record further down is sourced and verifiable.
Current-climate suitability
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Sun
Full sun
Soil moisture
free-draining, average
Heat tolerance
Up to about 42°C
Cold tolerance
Down to about -30°C
Waterlogging tolerance
1/5
Drought tolerance
5/5
Mature size
0.2–0.3 m tall, 0.3 m spread
Seasonal interest
Summer · Steel blue
Maintenance
low
Wildlife supported
General wildlife value 2/5 (verified species relationships are shown only where structured data exists)
Known risks or warnings
Dies out in humid wet ground; replace every few years.
Toxicity: none
Verified botanical record
- Accepted scientific name
- Festuca glauca Vill.
- Family
- Poaceae (Poales)
- Rank and status
- species · accepted
- GBIF record
- Taxon 2705031
Recorded as introduced in: Belgium, Bogotá, Canary Is., Colombia, Corse, El Salvador, Flemish Region, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Madeira, Morocco and 2 further regions
Ranges are exactly as recorded in the GBIF source checklists and may be incomplete for widely cultivated species.
Festuca glauca, commonly known as blue fescue, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family, Poaceae. It is a commonly cultivated evergreen or semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial.
Description from Wikipedia — Festuca glauca (CC BY-SA), shortened and unedited in substance.
Native status and geographic context
- United Kingdom: climate-suitable
- United States: climate-suitable
- Australia: climate-suitable
Native status is never inferred from climate similarity. Plants restricted or invasive in a jurisdiction are excluded from recommendations there.
Demonstration data. Climate, plant and retailer records shown here are realistic samples awaiting horticultural validation and live data connections.