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Agrostis gigantea
Also called Black bent, Redtop Bentgrass, Bonnet Grass, Fiorin, Redtop Bent, Black Bentgrass, Giant Bentgrass
Redtop is a perennial grass native to Europe, grown as pasture and used to stabilise disturbed or poor soils. It is grown as a forage and cover grass rather than as a garden ornamental, and it spreads by rhizomes and seed.
Agrostis gigantea is a perennial flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, known by the common names black bent and redtop.
It is native to Europe, but in the cooler areas of North America was widely used as a pasture grass until the 1940s. Although it has largely been replaced by soybeans and more palatable grasses, it still gets some use in poor soils. It was one of the grasses planted in areas disturbed by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. It generally does well in response to fires, with the survival of rhizomes and seeds.
Bentgrass · Seashore bentgrass · Rough bentgrass · Creeping bentgrass · Bentgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agrostis gigantea 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.
