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Agrostis canina
Also called Brown bent, Velvet bent, Velvety Bentgrass, Velvet Bent Grass
Velvet bentgrass (Agrostis canina) is a perennial grass from Europe and temperate Asia, grown mainly as a fine lawn grass and found in damp places like ditches and lake margins. It needs consistent moisture and does poorly in drought.
Agrostis canina, the velvety bentgrass, brown bent or velvet bent, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae.
The range of Agrostis canina covers most of Europe and temperate parts of Asia, and extends from sea level to the alpine zone. It has also been introduced to eastern North America, Hawaiʻi, Algeria and the Kerguelen Islands.
Blasdale bentgrass · Colonial bentgrass · Bentgrass · Clavate bentgrass · Agrostis delislei · California bentgrass · Agrostis dyeri · Elliott's bentgrass · Spike bentgrass · Redtop · Agrostis goughensis · Hall's bentgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agrostis canina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
