Family: Poaceae
Scientific Name: Festuca amethystima superba
Common Name: Rainbow Fescue, Large Blue Fescue
| Description | A large blue-silver colored Fescue. |
| Pronunciation | (fes-TOO-kah) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Grass Ornamental |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | inflorescences on slender amethyst colored stalks |
| Leaves | thin, grass like, good blue-silver color |
| Dimensions | up to 2 by 2 feet, mounded, tufted |
| Maintenance | dead head to remove the seeds, will reseed and may revert back to species plant |
| Propagation | division |
| Native Site | North central Europe |
| Notes & Reference | 103-The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses (Rick Darke), #92-The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grass (John Greenlee) |
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