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How to Manage Pests
Identification: Weed Photo Gallery
Tall fescue
Scientific name: Festuca arundinacea (Grass Family: Poaceae)
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DESCRIPTION:
Tall fescue, a cool season perennial grass, forms clumps with upright leaves. Seedlings are rolled in the bud and conspicuously
veined. Ligules are membranous. Auricle lobe margins are hairy or lobes may be lacking. In mature plants, leaf blades are
wide, coarse with rasplike margins and prominent veins, and radiate from a central clump. Flower stalks lie flat during mowing, resulting in ragged-looking
turf. Used for turf when planted thickly in many areas. Meadow fescue (Festuca elatior) has similar clumping characteristics;
it is included in some seed mixtures. Both fescues can be differentiated from
dallisgrass, which forms loose bunches instead of clumps when mature and has flatter
broader leaves and seed stalks.
Grass ID illustration.
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Text modified from Elmore, C.L., W.B. McHenry, and D.W. Cudney. 1989. Weed control in large turf areas. Chapter 3 in Turfgrass Pests. UC ANR Publication 4053.
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