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.
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.
Leicestershire & Rutland Map
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