Festuca californica, California Fescue
Scientific name: Festuca californica
Common name: California Fescue
A fast growing California Native perennial grass that should be planted in mass or used as a ground cover. It grows up to four feet high and three feet wide. The loose clumps of blue-green to blue-grey foliage are topped in late spring by flower spikes emerging green, aging to purple and maturing to deep yellow. This plant produces a pollen that can produce an allergic reaction.
Care:
- Plant in full sun to part shade
- Tolerant of a wide variety of soil types
- Irrigate occasionally to infrequently
- Great companion plant under evergreen oaks
- Drought tolerant once established
- Attracts butterflies
- Deer resistant
- Fire resistant
- Great for erosion control and bank stabilization
- Hardy up to 10 degrees
- Native to California