This fescue is slower growing and adapted for more utility type lawns. The shade tolerance level for the red fescue makes this fescue another of the grass seeds that can be used with great success in mixtures of cool season grasses such as the Kentucky bluegrass. Creeping red fescue is adapted to the medium wear and as a use in pure stands . Hard Fescue is adapted to the Hardiest of areas where many other grasses will not survive. This is indeed the most drought tolerant of the fescue species and can live in the poorest of soils.
Hard fescues is one of the few salt tolerant cool season grasses.
The root system, although not as deep as the tall fescue, is very efficient in taking up the most moisture from the air as possible. Although slow to recover from wear hard fescue is used in many athletic turf conditions because of the drought and low growing adaptability. Tall Fescue is a natural cool season forage . Tall fescue is one of the most adaptive of the cool season grass forages in the world. Covering about two thirds of the United States it is adapted to a variety of soil conditions such acid, alkaline, saline soils, flooded and poorly drained sites, even clay or Flatwoods soils that are preferably moist.