Index / Search / Festuca filiformis
§1 Plant
Festuca filiformis Pourr.
vernacular fineleaf sheep fescue — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Festuca
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
County-level range
· 97 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 97 counties across 11 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Fulton 36035
- Greene 36039
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FEFI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705011 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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