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§1 Plant
Festuca brevipila Tracey
vernacular hard fescue — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Festuca
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 185 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–26 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–8.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 0.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 591,920
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 185 counties across 17 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Arenac 26011
- Berrien 26021
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Delta 26041
- Emmet 26047
- Houghton 26061
- Huron 26063
- Ingham 26065
- Iosco 26069
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kalkaska 26079
- Kent 26081
- Keweenaw 26083
- Livingston 26093
- Marquette 26103
- Midland 26111
- Montmorency 26119
- Muskegon 26121
- Oakland 26125
- Oceana 26127
- Oscoda 26135
- Otsego 26137
- Presque Isle 26141
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FEBR7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704949 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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