Festuca L.

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Festuca L.

• Description

  Description - Spikelets few to several-flowered; glumes small; lemmas firm, convex, or keeled toward the summit only, awned from the tip (rarely from between minute teeth), sometimes acuminate or mucronate only.

• Common Names

  fescue