| Taxon | Festuca rubra |
| group | Monocots |
| Family | Poaceae |
| Family common name(s) | grass; true grass |
| Genus common name(s) | fescue; fescue-grass; fescue grass; fescuegrass; festuce |
| Species common name(s) | red fescue; red fescue-grass; red fescue grass; red fescuegrass; creeping red fescue; creeping red fescue-grass; creeping red fescue grass; red creeping fescue; creeping fescue; rood zwenkgras; red festuce |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | fine creeping red fescue [subsp. rubra] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | chewing fescue, Chewing's fescue, Chewing fescue, Chewings fescue are applied to several Festuca rubra subspp. and cultivars; ravine fescue, rock fescue are applied to multiple Festuca taxa; rescue-grass, rescue grass, redtop, red-top, red top are applied to multiple Poaceae taxa |
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| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | subsp. arenicola E.B. Alexeev; subsp. densiuscula Piper; subsp. pruinosa (Hack.) Piper; Festuca ammobia Pavlick |
