''Festuca rupicola'', the furrowed fescue, is a species of cool-season grass in the family

Poaceae 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 ...

. It is native the warm-temperate Old World; from the Atlas Mountains of Africa, then France and much of central and eastern Europe through to Central Asia and on to Manchuria, and as far south as Saudi Arabia and Iran. A tussock-former, it is considered a typical dominant species of ancient species-rich grasslands.

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rupicola Flora of Morocco Flora of Algeria Flora of France Flora of Central Europe Flora of Southeastern Europe Flora of Eastern Europe Flora of West Siberia Flora of the Caucasus Flora of Central Asia Flora of Altai (region) Flora of Saudi Arabia Flora of Iran Flora of Afghanistan Flora of China Plants described in 1858 {{Pooideae-stub