Sand Fescue Seeds (Festuca ammobia)

A beautiful blue/green/grey low maintenance turf and ornamental grass. Native to the Pacific Coast (from British Columbia to Mexico), sand fescue is a fine textured and long-lived ground cover that is a useful and charming grass for wild lawns, vineyards and orchards, pet areas, septic drainfields, xeriscaping and rock gardens – and for incorporating into meadows to add visually striking texture. Spreading slowly from rhizomes, this is a loose, tufting grass with highly variable color – ranging from deep pure green to a blue-grey (dependent upon the individual plant and environmental factors such as dryness and shade). As the “sand” part of its common name suggests, this species establishes excellently in sharply drained sites (consisting of sand and gravel), but it also has good tolerance for clay and silt soils, and for low soil fertility. As a fine-leaved fescue, this grass combines well with similar species (red fescue, Molate native red fescue, Roemer’s fescue, western fescue, har