Chewings fescue

The reader is probably acquainted with the Fescue Grass, with its awned flowers arranged in one-sided panicles.

Meadow Fescue is one of the most common of the fescue grasses, and is said to be the Randall grass of Virginia.

The fescue (Festuca ovina), a little fern (Woodsia), and a saussurea ascend very near the summit.

A larger form, the Hard Fescue (F. duriuscula), is common to sound meadows and the hill valleys.