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Sheep's Fescue

Festuca ovina on left

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Festuca
Species:	F. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Liliopsida is a Botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family Poales is an order of Flowering plants in the Monocotyledons and includes families of plants such as the grasses, Bromeliads, Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. Fescue ( Festuca) is a Genus of about 300 Species of perennial tufted Grasses belonging to the grass family Poaceae ovina

Binomial name

Festuca ovina
L.

Sheep's Fescue or Sheep Fescue (Festuca ovina) is a species of grass. Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs, for example in the Portlethen Moss, Scotland and mountain pasture, throughout Europe (with the exception of some Mediterranean areas) and eastwards across much of Asia; it has also been introduced to eastern North America ^[1]. A perennial plant or perennial ( Latin per, "through" annus, "year" is a Plant that lives for more than The Portlethen Moss is an Acidic bog Nature reserve in the coastal Grampian region in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. The Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around and surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea.

It is sometimes used as a drought-tolerant lawn grass. Xeriscaping refers to landscaping in ways that do not require supplemental Irrigation. A lawn is an area of recreational or amenity land planted with grass, and sometimes Clover and other plants which are maintained at a low even height ^[2]

References

^ Distribution map for Festuca ovina. Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm. The Swedish Museum of Natural History (in Swedish Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, literally the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, is ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the
^ Fuller, Sherry. Choosing the right drought-tolerant lawn can save water. SWColoradohome. com.

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