Family: Poaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability (, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Widely naturalized (but no evidence in Hawaiian Islands)
  
• Regarded as a weed or weedy (but impacts unspecified)
  
• Other Festuca species have become invasive
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• May hybridizes with other Festuca species
  
• Seeds may be dispersed by animals and intentionally by people
  
• Tolerates mowing

Low Risk Traits:

• Despite designation as weedy, impacts are unspecified, and generally regarded as a desirable cover species
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Palatable to grazing animals
  
• Self-incompatible
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively