Sheep's-fescue - Festuca ovina
Alt Name
Sheep's Fescue
Description
Tufted grass without rhizomes or runners, 5 to 40 cm tall. All leaves are bristle like, rough 3 to 15 cm long and 0.5 cm wide. Inflorescence 2 to 12 cm long, erect.
Similar Species
Festuca rubra and other fine-leaved fescues
Identification difficulty
Recording advice
The County Recorder has asked for a specimen of this plant to be retained for verification
Habitat
Drier grassland.
When to see it
May and June.
Life History
Perennial.
UK Status
Fairly frequent but local in most of Britain and scarcer in the east of England.
VC55 Status
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 123 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham CalowCroft Pasture09 May 2014subspecies ovina - specimen examined
Graham CalowCroft Pasture09 May 2014subspecies ovina - specimen examined
Graham CalowCroft Hill03 May 2013
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David NichollsCroft Pasture09 May 2014 'The Park' field Sapcote SP 4846 9331 (taken 20.6.2008).JPG)
Graham CalowThe Park Field, Sapcote20 June 2008
David NichollsCroft Hill03 May 2013
Graham CalowCroft Hill03 May 2013
 'The Park' field Sapcote SP 4846 9331 (taken 20.6.2008).JPG)
