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Creeping Fescue
CREEPING FESCUE (Festuca rubra L.)Other English name: Red Fescue.
Botanical description:
Creeping Fescue is perennial with long, creeping, underground rootstocks, from the joints of which the overground stems and shoots arise. For this reason no real tufts are formed, but more or less extended mats with scattered stems develop. The latter are from eighteen to thirty-six inches high, smooth and round. Secondary shoots arise from buds within the sheaths of old basal leaves. When developing, the shoots break through the sheaths at their base, tearing them into strips.The ragged brown scales and threads, which are always present at the base of the stems and shoots of Creeping Fescue, represent the remnants of the sheaths. Creeping Fescue can easily be distinguished from Sheep's Fescue by these tattered sheaths. The leaves are rolled up in the bud, as in Sheep's Fescue; but while in the latter all the leaves are permanently rolled up, in Creeping Fescue only the basal ones persist in that condition, the stem leaves being flat when developed except in very dry, hot weather.
The flowers are in a panicle like that of Sheep's Fescue, although as a rule it is larger and often a little nodding. The spikelets, each of which contains from four to six flowers, are variously coloured but often reddish-brown - hence the name Red Fescue. The outer glume of the flower has an awn, which is generally longer than in Sheep's Fescue.