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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Grasses
  7. Fescues
  8. Complex Festuca Ovina
  9. Fine-leaved Sheep's-fescue

species 316 observations

Fine-leaved Sheep's-fescue

Festuca filiformis

Status
introduced
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

14 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Common Branded Skipper, Putnam's Looper Moth, Large Heath 3
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Large Marsh Grasshopper, Plant Bug, Rose Grain Aphid, Hyaline Grass Bug 11

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Grasses and sedges
Plant type
Ornamental grasses and sedges Perennial

From USDA PLANTS.

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