Description
Creeping Red Fescue Grass
Uses
Creeping Red Fescue GrassCreeping Red Fescue grass seed is widely
planted for turf grass in the transition and Northern cool season
areas. Creeping Red Fescue is a fine bladed grass with medium to
dark green color. It is easily established from seed and spreads
with rhizomes with a "creeping" growth habit.
While it persists in cool season climates, Creeping Red
Fescue is not as cold tolerant as Kentucky Bluegrass or Creeping
Bentgrass. Its major use is for dry shaded areas as either a pure
stand or as a mixture in other grass seed mixtures such as
Bluegrass seed, creeping bent grass seed and Perennial Ryegrass
seed. Even though it is one of the best grasses for use in shade...
it will tolerate full sun conditions although this could require
more water. Creeping Red Fescue is used extensively in all types of
turf areas including parks, roadsides, lawns, fairways, cemeteries,
airfields, and other turf areas.
Creeping Red Fescue seed can also used to overseed warm-season
turfs such as Bermudagrass. It grows best in well drained sites and
in droughty, infertile soils. It does not tolerate wet soils or
high fertilization rates, including highly fertile soils. *-
Pernille, Evergreen, & Boreal are the more common
varieties.
Types of Creeping Red Fescue
Grass
There are two different types of creeping red fescue - Rubra rubra
and Rubra trichophylla. The Rubra rubra variety is called a "strong
creeping" type with *6 chromosomes compared to *2 in the other
type. These varieties of creeping red fescue both spread via
rhizomes(underground creeping stems) and stolons (above ground
creeping stems) which allow them to spread and repair turf areas.
The Rubra trichophylla variety produces shorter rhizomes that
repair at a slower rate than the Rubra rubra. For the common
Creeping Red we generally sell the Boreal, Evergreen, or Pernille
seed varieties which are the Rubra rubra varieties.
Improved Varieties Of Creeping Red Fescue
Lustrous Creeping Red Fescue is an exceptionally shade tolerant,
low growing, fine textured turf with a dark green color. New
cultivars of creeping red fescue are constantly being developed
with added features such as glysophate and salt tolerance. Most
creeping red fescue cultivars have an attractive dark green, dense
turf and a persistent growth nature due to their creeping rhizome
root system.
Its ability to survive lower light intensities, or shade, makes
Creeping Red one of the turf specialist's best tools!
Creeping Red Fescue Grass
Seed Facts
Creeping Red Fescue is a economical cool season grass with a very
fine texture and is the most shade tolerant fescue. Creeping Red
Fescue is one of the varieties of Red Fescue, called creeping due
to it's rhizomes with which this grass spreads. Creeping Red Fescue
is a shade tolerant, eco-friendly grass that is easy to grow from
seed. Creeping Red Fescue is easy on the environment due to low
water, mowing and fertilization requirements.
Uses For Creeping Red
Fescue
The major use is for creeping red fescue seed is for establishing
turf in dry shaded areas as either a pure stand or as a mixture
with other cool season grass such as Bluegrasses, creeping bent
grasses and Perennial Ryegrasses. Creeping Red Fescue is used
extensively in all types of turf areas including parks, roadsides,
lawns, fairways, cemeteries, airfields, and other turf areas.
Creeping Red Fescue grass will survive in areas of heavy shade (**4
hours of daily sun) and has a low to moderate tolerance for
traffic.
