Description
Loved for its remarkable blue-green color and densely clumping form, Roemer’s fescue is a widespread and common native bunchgrass in southwest Oregon and northwest California. Found from shady forests to open grassland, Roemer’s fescue inhabits a wide variety of habitat types. It is an important native grass species for restoration of native grasslands, upland prairie, and oak woodland. Growing 1′-2′ tall, Roemer’s fescue is drought tolerant, preferring medium to fine textured soil. Great for wildland plantings, rock gardens, ornamental native plant gardens, or mixed into a wildflower meadow. Roemer’s fescue seeds are an important food source for wildlife, and the foliage is used as a larval host plant by some butterfly species.
Roemer’s fescue (Festuca roemeri) seed packets contain approximately 350 seeds.
Seed Germination Instructions
This species requires 30 days cold-moist stratification. If you live in an area with cold enough winters you can simply sow the seeds outside in fall to early spring and let nature do the work, or if you live in an area with mild winters, you can use artificial methods for stratification. For more information about cold-stratification and seed germination, read more on our website here.
