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Idaho fescue

Festuca idahoensis Elmer

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Festuca

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Idaho fescue: The loosely overlapping, awn-tipped, rounded-back lemmas are characteristic of fecue grasses.
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (5)
Arabic
فستوكة إيداهو
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فستوكه ايداهو
Chinese
爱达荷羊茅
English
Idaho fescue, Blue bunchgrass
French
Fétuque d'Idaho

Synonyms

  • Festuca amethystina subvar. idahoensis (Elmer) St.-Yves
  • Festuca idahoensis var. idahoensis
  • Festuca ingrata var. ingrata

Flowers

Flower colour
yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)

Characteristics

Growth habit
Graminoid
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native

Photos

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.