Festuca elmeri

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Festuca elmeri

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Festuca
Species: F. elmeri
Binomial name
Festuca elmeri
Scribn. & Merr.

Festuca elmeri is a species of grass known by the common names coast fescue and Elmer's fescue. It is native to the US states of California and Oregon, where it often grows in wet, shady areas in coastal counties. This fescue grows in thin bunches with erect stems reaching up to one meter in height. The leaves are somewhat hairy and 10 to 40 centimeters long. The drooping inflorescence holds spikelets which are each about a centimeter long and have light-colored, hairlike awns.

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