Festuca ovina (sheep's fescue, "Ushinokegusa")

Japanese name: ウシノケグサ （牛毛草）
Scientific name: Festuca ovina

[Overview]
A perennial 20–40 cm tall, found mainly in sunny places from the mountains to alpine zones.
It has a short rhizome.
It forms dense clumps.
The leaves are slender, 1 mm or less wide, rather stiff, and sometimes tinged with white.
The inflorescence is erect and 5–8 cm long.
The inflorescence bears many spikelets 5–7 mm long.
The tip of the lemma has an erect awn 0.5–2 mm long.

[Notes]
The Japanese name likens the thin leaves to the hair of a cow.

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