Rhizomatous Tall Fescue

What is Rhizomatous Tall Fescue?
Rhizomatous Tall Fescue is a new type of tall fescue, which produces rhizomes. A rhizome is an underground stem that tills through the soil to spread the plant underground and form new growth. Rhizomatous tall fescue behaves like a bluegrass but will survive the transition zone climate as well as other turf type tall fescues.

What makes Rhizomatous Tall Fescue unique?
Unlike other Tall Fescues, rhizomatous tall fescue has the ability to repair itself. Traditional tall fescue grasses will clump together, not filling in the bare spots and producing an uneven lawn. With bare spots, weeds are more apt to take over the lawn.

What makes rhizomatous tall fescue unique is its ability to fill in these open areas with rhizomes. Young plants first build the root and shoot system to sustain life; then concentrate on a bare area of lawn with rhizomes, knitting the lawn together.

Rhizomatous tall fescue’s rapid germination ensures quick establishment of your new lawn. While overseeding an existing lawn, the quick germination allows rhizomatous tall fescue to compete successfully with the old turf, eliminating the clumps and bare spots forever.

Rhizomatous Tall Fescue Factsheet