bent grass

• bentgrass

From bent +‎ grass.

bent grass (usually uncountable, plural bent grasses)

1. Any of several grasses, of the genus Agrostis, native to temperate climates; grown for pasture, turf and for putting greens and golf courses.
   • 1952 May, Frank Jeffares, “Irish Railway Coastal Defence”, in Railway Magazine, page 304:

     A secondary protective device used near Greystones consists in the planting of bent grass and sea couch grass to aid reclamation of certain areas. Unfortunately, bent grass lends itself to the formation of dunes, which are very vulnerable. Sea couch grass has proved the best so far.

• bent grass seed-gall nematode (Anguina agrostis)
• Blasdale's bent grass (Agrostis blasdalei)
• brown bent grass (Agrostis canina)
• creeping bent grass (Agrostis stolonifera)
• Hall's bent grass (Agrostis hallii)
• Henderson's bent grass (Agrostis hendersonii)
• Hoover's bent grass (Agrostis hooveri)
• Idaho bent grass (Agrostis idahoensis)
• marsh bent grass (Agrostis alba)
• mountain bent grass (Podagrostis humilis)
• Pacific bent grass (Lachnagrostis filiformis)
• reed bent grass (Calamagrostis spp., Arctagrostis arundinacea)
• rough bent grass (Agrostis scabra, Agrostis hyemalis)
• silky bent grass (Agrostis spica-venti)
• South African bent grass (Lachnagrostis lachnantha)
• velvet bent grass (Agrostis canina)
• water bent grass (Polypogon viridis)
• white bent grass (Agrostis alba, Nardus stricta)

• Agrostis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Agrostis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Agrostis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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