Festuca altissima, Festuca sylvatica, SE: Skogssvingel,
DE: Wald-Schwingel, NL: Zwenkgras, UK: Wood Fescue

Scientific name:		Festuca altissima All.
Synonym name:		Festuca sylvatica (Pollich) Vill.
Swedish name:		Skogssvingel
German name:		Wald-Schwingel
Nederlandse naam:		Zwenkgras
English name:		Wood Fescue
Plant Family:		Poaceae, Grass family, Gräs

Life form:		Perennial herb without rhizomes
Stems:		Culms (refers to the above-ground or aerial stems of grasses and sedges) erect; 50–120 cm long; 3–4 -noded.
Leaves:		Alternate, glabrous, long-linear,gragually narrowed to a fine point, leaf-blades 20–60 cm long; 4–14 mm wide
Flowers:		Inflorescence a panicle, pale-coloured flower spikelets, oblong or wedgeshaped
Flowering Period:		June, July
Fruits:		Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; hairy at apex.
Habitat:		woods, thickets

Derivation of the botanical name: Festuca, a "rod", literally "straw," which can be a twig or small stick. Latin name on grass straw by Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BCE – 27 BCE). Altissima, Altus, "high" and means "the highest". The standard author abbreviation All. is used to indicate Carlo Allioni (1728 – 1804), an Italian physician and professor of botany at the University of Turin. The standard author abbreviation Pollich is used to indicate Johan Adam Pollich (1740 – 1780), a German doctor, botanist and entomologist. The standard author abbreviation Vill. is used to indicate Dominique Villars (1745 – 1814), a French botanist.