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Tall Fescue Types
Standard Turf | Semi-Dwarf | Double-Dwarf Turf | Pseudo-Rhizomatous | Spreading Tall Fescue (STF®) | Forage (European) | Forage (Mediterranean)

Tall Fescue Varieties
 Falcon II | Falcon III | Falcon IV | Finelawn Elite | Five Point | Gazelle | Gremlin | Renegade II | Riverside | Scorpion | Scoripion II | Shenandoah II | Six Point

Alphabetical List of All Varieties
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top Standard turf-type
Heirloom varieties of turf-type tall fescue with improved turf quality. These varieties have greater basal tiller density, shorter plant height, and darker green color than forage type tall fescues such as KY-31. These varieties would be labeled as "forage type" by lawn care professionals today.
top Semi-Dwarf Type
Improved turf-type tall fescues with significant improvement in turf quality, turf color, and disease and insect resistance. Various levels of endophyte content Neotyphodium ceonophialum which provides natural resistance to leaf, crown feed insects and nematodes, and contributes to improved abiotic and biotic stress tolerance.
top Double-Dwarf turf-type
This group of turf-type tall fescues varieties have distinctly shorter early spring and late fall canopy height. Double dwarfs have been improperly sold as "reduced clipping varieties". University tests indicate that yearly grass clippings of double-dwarf versus semi-dwarf tall fescue are statistically the same under similar management programs. Only recently have breeders developed double-dwarf tall fescues that exhibit moderate to good resistance to brown patch, the most limiting factor to tall fescue persistence in the Mid South of USA.
top Pseudo-Rhizomatous Type
turf-type tall fescue spreads by means of basal tillers, not rhizomes as found in Kentucky bluegrass. Breeders have identified and developed varieties with frequency distribution of plants that produce underground stems similar to Kentucky bluegrass. More research is needed to determine added value in turf management systems.
top Spreading Type - STF®
STF® (Spreading Tall Fescue) is new from ProSeeds in 2005. In contrast to so-called pseudo-rhizomatous varieties, this material spreads by aggressive horizontal basal tillering. STF® material has crown circumfrence 2-3 times greater than improved semi-dwarf tall fescue varieties. Tiller density, turf quality, and color is better than most imporved turf-type tall fescues.
top Forage Type (European)
This germplasm originates in more northern regions of the European continent. These varieties have winter dormant growth habit and have excellent summer stay green for forage production systems in the Mid South of USA.
top Forage Type (Mediterranean)
The germplasm originates in the southern coastal regions of Europe along the Mediterranean where winters are mild and dry. Mediterranean varieties have a distinct flush of winter growth, respond positively to short day length and mild spring temperatures. This material has very poor summer stay-green potential in the Mid South USA.