Organic Creeping Red Fescue

Creeping Red Fescue (Festuca rubra) Seed

Like Sheep’s Fescue, Creeping Red Fescue is a short slow growing perennial grass with fine, green or grey-green bristle like leaves. Individual plants form dense tufts which can be almost rosette like in form.

Special Features:

• Stress tolerant, slow growing grass. 
• It is widely distributed in Ireland on poor, shallow, usually well-drained soils.
• It is good at coping in stressed environments, but less able to compete against taller more vigorous grasses particularly on fertile soils.
• It is a very variable and adaptable plant species and can be found in both acid and calcareous grassland in a wide range of situations from sea cliffs to mountains.
• Ideal for mixing with flower seeds to make a flower meadow.
• Stays green on drier soil.
• Good for stabilising slope.
• By creeping it helps create a dense and tough sward.
• Also used often in amenity situations such as for ground cover in wild flower meadow.

Management:

• Can be grazed or mown closely.
• Regular cutting will make creeping fescue more dense.