Types

• Tall fescue, fine fescue, sheep fescue and red fescue are the most common varieties of fescue grass.
  
  

Season

• Fescue is a cool-season grass that grows well throughout much of the United States.
  
  

Leaf Blades

• The blades of fescue grass have sharp points at the end and feature ridges on the inner surface of the blade.
  
  

Rhizomes

• Creeping red fescue is the only type of fescue grass that features rhizomes. All other types of fescue do not produce rhizomes.
  
  

Sheaths

• Fescue grass has flat or round sheathes, depending upon variety. Red fescue grass features round sheathes. All other species of fescue have flat sheathes that is smooth to the touch and has short hairs.