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Fescues
Most rated Festuca records are fire-resistant — 5 of 10 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 10 records carrying 50 evidence rows from 20 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Fescues Festuca spp. Fire-resistant Majority — dissent on page 6 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
4 species
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Sheep Fescue Fire-resistant Festuca ovina -
Fescue, Chewings Fire-resistant Festuca rubra -
Blue fescue Fire-resistant Festuca cinerea -
Fescue, Tall Fire-resistant Festuca arundinacea
Keep away
1 species
Awaiting evidence
4 species
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Fescue Awaiting evidence Festuca glauca -
Arizona fescue Awaiting evidence Festuca arizonica - Fescue, sheep Awaiting evidence Festuca trachyphylla
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Idaho Fescue Awaiting evidence Festuca idahoensis
About fescues
Corpus context. Festuca is the directory's #57 largest of 550 genus groups: 10 records carrying 50 evidence rows from 20 cited sources, recorded as grass , hardy across USDA zones 2–9. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Festuca: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.