But there are ways to streamline the choices, even if you can't tell a creeping red fescue from a patch of zoysia.

Courts were previously 70% Ryegrass and 30% Creeping Red Fescue grass.

Festuca rubra is a species of grass known by the common name red fescue or creeping red fescue.

Festuca rubra, as red fescue or creeping red fescue, is cultivated as an ornamental plant for use as a turfgrass and groundcover.

These properties make it an ideal constituent in lawn turfs, where it is often found mixed with ryegrass, smooth-stalked meadow grass, slender creeping red fescue and bent grasses.

Shade-tolerant grasses like creeping red fescue and nitrogen-rich plants like perennial peas and trefoil will be encouraged on the northern and western slopes, where woodchucks have made themselves at home.

Only the finest and wiriest of grasses will do; brown-top bent and 'Chewing's Fescue' to form the tufts that give the turf its bounce, and creeping red fescue to knit the whole lot together.

A. maritima and L.scoticum are constant, as also is Festuca rubra.

The larvae feed on Festuca rubra arenaria.

It is thought that Red Fescue Festuca rubra is essential in their diet.

Festuca rubra (I)

If left unploughed, these communities are eventually replaced by a Festuca rubra - Trifolium repens sward.

Red fescue - (Festuca rubra)

The commonest grass is Festuca rubra and the commonest sedge is C. nigra.

Hollows contain dense Festuca rubra, Agrostis stolonifera and Potentilla anserina, which is one of the communities of mesotrophic grassland.

Where the upper marsh is grazed Red Fescue (Festuca rubra) and Creeping Bent (Argostis stolonifera) are found.

The larvae feed on Calamagrostis epigejos, Dactylis glomerata, Elymus repens, Festuca rubra and Poa pratensis.

The grassland communities of the cliff slopes are dominated by Red Fescue Festuca rubra which often forms a matressy sward, and Yorkshire-fog Holcus lanatus.

According to Crawford (pers.comm.), natural machair is a Festuca rubra - Galium verum grassland with characteristic Ranunculus acris, Euphrasia officinalis, Bellis perennis and Plantago lanceolata.

The grassland generally is dominated by Sheep's Fescue Festuca ovina, Red Fescue Festuca rubra and Upright Brome Bromus erectus.

The larvae feed on Brachypodium sylvaticum, Elymus repens, Festuca arvernensis, Festuca lemanii, Festuca longifolia, Festuca ovina, Festuca ovina, Festuca rubra, Poa pratensis, Poa trivialis and Trisetum flavescens.