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Festuca ovina
Also called Sheep's Fescue, Ovina, Sheep’s Fescue, Hard Fescue
Sheep fescue is a tufted perennial grass native to temperate Eurasia, grown for lawns, meadows and dry, poor-soil areas. It thrives in full sun and needs very little water once established.
Festuca ovina, sheep's fescue or sheep fescue, is a species of grass. It is sometimes confused with hard fescue (Festuca trachyphylla).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Festuca ovina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
