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Agrostis scabra
Also called Rough Bent, Hair Grass, Rough Hair Grass, Winter Bent Grass, Rough Hairgrass, Ticklegrass, Tickle Grass
Rough bentgrass (Agrostis scabra) is a perennial bunchgrass native to North America and Asia, found from lowlands to high alpine slopes. It is tough and adaptable, tolerating cold, poor soils, and disturbed ground.
Agrostis scabra is a common species of grass known by the common names hair grass, rough bent, rough bent grass, winter bent grass, and ticklegrass. A tumbleweed, it is a bunchgrass native to Asia and much of North America, and widely known elsewhere as an introduced species.
It occurs in most of the United States except parts of the Southeast and in most of Canada except for the farthest northern regions. It can be found in Mexico and California, and across Alaska to far eastern Asia as far south as Korea.
The tolerance of this grass to alpine climates makes it a good plant to use in revegetating disturbed land in such regions. It is known to respond to burning with increased growth. It is known to spring up on sites where few other plants can grow, such as abandoned coal mines and soils polluted with sulfur, copper, and nickel. Prior to flowering, cattle, sheep, and horses readily consume it; it is also occasionally consumed by wild animals and after flowering by livestock.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agrostis scabra 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.
