Festuca rubra, the red fescue, a grass species found worldwide
Myrica rubra | Festuca rubra | Festuca | Quercus rubra | Festuca arundinacea | Plumeria rubra | Halocaridina rubra | Festuca glauca | Vriesea rubra | Thelymitra rubra | Spergularia rubra | Sarracenia rubra | Pityriasis rubra pilaris | Oxalis rubra | Hypotrix rubra | Filipendula rubra | Festuca valesiaca | Festuca californica | Alnus rubra |
It is a common grass on grassy balds in the southern Appalachians, where it occurs with redtop (Agrostis alba), timothy (Phleum pratense), Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa), Kentucky bluegrass (P. pratensis), red fescue (Festuca rubra), five-fingers (Potentilla canadensis), and sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella).
The sand dunes are of various stages of evolution and contain marram grass (Ammophila arenaria), red fescue, (Festuca rubra), crowberry, (Empetrum nigrum), the cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix), common sedge, (Carex nigra), marsh pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris) and the invasive creeping willow (Salix repens ssp. argentea).