Festuca pilgeri is a species of grass which is endemic to East Africa.

[1] The plant is perennial and caespitose with 40–60 centimetres (16–24 in) long culms that are clumped.

The glumes are chartaceous and keelless, have acute apexes, with only difference is in size.

Fertile lemma is 5.5–7.5 millimetres (0.22–0.30 in) long and are elliptic, coriaceous and keelless.

Flowers have three stamens and hairy ovary while the fruits are caryopses with an additional pericarp and linear hilum.