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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 flower cluster holds spikelets which are each about a centimeter long and have light-colored, hairlike awns.
Grass
3 ft Tall
Brown
Groundcover
Partial Shade
Moist, wooded slopes, under trees in rich soil
Foothill Woodland, Mixed Evergreen Forest, Northern Oak Woodland, Yellow Pine Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 8 likely
Yellow-Collared Scape Moth
Cisseps fulvicollis
Common Ringlet
Coenonympha tullia
Lindsey's Skipper
Hesperia lindseyi
Nevada Skipper
Hesperia nevada