What type of grass is this?

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It grows really fast here and sheep loved it. The rabbits like it too. I would like to buy some seed, but don't know what to ask for.

[Cabin Fever]

Looks like a fescue variety - maybe tall fescue or creeping red fescue

[agmantoo]

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I am not disagreeing with this plant ID. I am surprised that with your location and the fact that the picture of the plant being dried as it appears. IMO it is too early for a Spring fescue to be naturally as dry as the picture indicates. Is it possible the plant shown is from a bale of hay?

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Oh no Agaman, I had to hunt to find the seed head. Most of the dead plant from the previous year had no seed head. Here no one has cut lawn yet but this plant has grown to 8 inches. The plant that comes up is broader leaf than timothy and obviously faster growing and taller. I am thinking that it is spreading by root more than seed because it is all along the same side of the bush road, but it could be that the other side is not as hospitable to the plant.

It is very sandy the soil where it is growing naturally but on the border of a small marshy area.

The area I want to seed has been opened up due to aggregate removal and I think it would make a perfect little grazing area, if I can get it seeded before crabgrass and other vegetation takes over.

[agmantoo]

Here in zone 7 of North Carolina the best time to sow fescue is the early Fall. I grow KY 31 tall fescue (Oregon state grown) and the current price is $44 US per 50 pounds. The planting rate is 20 pounds per acre. This is the longest lived, highest producing, high protein forage for Spring growth and stocking for Winter forage that I can grow. It has 1 issue and that is it is endophyte infected. My cattle seem to have adjusted to eating it and I do not see the consequences from the consumption that many people report. Fescue is my main forage throughout the year. The following is not a pure stand.

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I believe it resembles the tall fescue in nature. Thank you for your help.