''Festuca alpina'' is a species of

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

in the genus

Festuca ''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every ...

. It grows in rocky habitats in many of the mountains chains across Europe, in the countries of Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. When regarded as an aggregate group, the ''Festuca alpina'' group includes a number of other taxa, with '' Festuca alfrediana'' as the most notable.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q12230767 Festuca Grasses of Europe