Creeping Bentgrass

Scientific Name:   Agrostis stolonifera
Altenative names, synonyms, exist for this plant. See RPC Plant Details and check the refernce websites for additional information.


Alternate Scientific Name (Synonym):  Agrostis gigantea

Panicle branches are only spreading during anthesis (flowering period) and become ascending to appressed after pollination. Generally considered an introduction from Eurasia but there is some indication populations native to North America may exist. Turf grass of choice for golf courses.

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Genus species: Agrostis stolonifera
     Synonym: Agrostis gigantea
Common Name: Creeping Bentgrass
Family Name: Poaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs, or woody in a few genera; stems terete, internodes hollow or solid; leaves alternate, 2-ranked, simple, and parallel-veined, with sheathing bases, the sheaths usually open, typically with a ligule at junction of sheath and blade; flowers (florets) bisexual or unisexual, subtended by bracts (a lemma and usually a palea), in spikelets usually subtended by a pair of bracts (glumes); fruit a caryopsis.
Seed Type Gymnosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Grass
Identified by:J.D. Mancini