Any of about 100 species of grasses that make up the genus Festuca (family Poaceae, or Gramineae), native to temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Several species are important pasture and fodder grasses, and a few are used in lawn mixtures. One variety, blue fescue \(F. ovina glauca'), has smooth, silvery leaves and is planted in ornamental borders
A European fescue (Festuca elatior syn. F. arundinacea) with erect smooth stems three to four feet (about one meter) high that has been introduced into No. America ¯ called also tall fescue grass