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Festuca pratensis
Also called Meadow fescue, Grass, Couch, Grass Family, Cereal, Turf, Grasses
Meadow fescue is a tuft-forming perennial grass, grown as an ornamental in gardens and as an important forage crop; it thrives in damp, rich loamy or heavy soils. The key to growing it is consistent moisture in a sunny, fertile spot.
Lolium pratense, meadow fescue is a perennial species of grass, which is often used as an ornamental in gardens, and is also an important forage crop.
It grows in meadows, roadsides, old pastures, and riversides on moist, rich soils, especially on loamy and heavy soils.
Meadow fescue is found in damp grasslands such as water-meadows, pastures and road verges, where it was formerly widely sown as a component of grass-clover seed mixes for improving the productivity of agricultural grasslands. The degree to which it has been planted obscures its natural distribution and has probably extended its range far beyond where it would previously have occurred.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lolium pratense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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