Six-Weeks Fescue (Vulpia octoflora / Festuca octoflora) is an annual grass native to US states nationwide (such as California, Arizona, Texas, Kansas, and Ohio) that can thrive in USDA Zones 3–10 as a cool-season annual. Reaching a mature height of 3–12 inches with a small, delicate, tufted growth habit, it features fine, thread-like green leaf blades and produces narrow, bristly green-to-purplish seed panicles. It thrives in dry, sandy, gravelly, or shallow sterile soils in open deserts, plains, and disturbed sites in full sun and is ideal for rapid spring soil cover, desert wind erosion control, and arid land stabilization.
Cool season, small, loosely tufted, native annual commonly found in open disturbed areas throughout the U.S. Drought tolerant and well-adapted to sand and loam soils. Useful as a reclamation species in early seral stages. Poor palatability to livestock and wildlife.
Species Attributes
Seeds Per lb
Growing Region
Southwest, Intermountain West
Native
Intermountain West, Southwest, Midwest
Life Form
Grass
Life Cycle
Annual
Light Requirements
Sun
Precipitation Requirements
Low
Mature Height
0-1 ft
Flowering Season
Cool/Warm Season
Cool
Bloat/Non-Bloat
Bloom Color
Bunch/Sod
Bunch
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