Fescue

( lat. Festuca )

Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Festuca

Plant Allergy Overview

Allergenicity

Severe

Pollen Season

Spring Summer

Type

Grass

Sub-Type

Perennial

Allergy Information

This is one of the more significant grass types in terms of allergy.


Genus Details

This grass is perennial and has flat, smooth thin blades. It tolerates shade well and grows in prairie slopes and woodland margins.


Pollen Description

Grains are spheroidal to ovoidal, sometimes elliptical. The exine is thin and the surface is granular to finely reticuloid. Poaceae apertures are 1-porate, with the pores usually circular to ovoidal.

Grains are 22-122 micrometers in diameter.


Genus Distribution

The shaded areas on the map indicates where the genus has been observed in the United States.

- Native, observed in a county 
- Introduced, observed in a county 
- Rarely observed


Species in Fescue Genus

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