Festuca rupicola, the furrowed fescue, is a species of cool-season grass in the family Poaceae. It is native to the warm-temperate Old World; from the Atlas Mountains of Africa, as well as France and much of central and eastern Europe through to Central Asia and on to Manchuria, and as far south as Saudi Arabia and Iran. A tussock-former, it is considered a typical dominant species of ancient species-rich grasslands.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Furrowed fescue being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Festuca pseudovina
- Festuca trachyphylla
- Festuca nigrescens
- Festuca rubra
- Festuca filiformis
- Festuca ovina
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Festuca
- Species
- Festuca rupicola
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