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Apera spica-venti
Also called Loose silky-bent, Silky Bent, Common Wind Grass, Loose Silky Bentgrass, Silky Bentgrass, Silky Bent Grass, Wind Grass
Loose silkybent is a grass-family annual or biennial weed of pastures and disturbed sandy ground, growing 40 to 100 cm tall. It is a wild grass rather than a garden or houseplant, and it spreads by seed.
Apera spica-venti, the loose silky-bent or common windgrass, is an annual or biannual plant in the genus Apera. It belongs to the family Poaceae. It is a Diploid species meaning that it contains two sets of chromosomes.
This species is native to Eurasia and North Africa from the Canary Islands to Denmark to Yakutia. It occurs in pastures with sandy soil. It has naturalized in the United States, Canada, and Russian Far East.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Apera spica-venti 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.
