Taxon: Agrostis capillaris L.

Common names:

• bent grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• browntop   (Source: Websters Dict [as A. tenuis]) – English
  
• browntop bent   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• colonial bent   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• colonial bent grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• common bent   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• common bent grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• New Zealand bent grass   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• Prince Edward Island bent grass   (Source: Diversity 16:34.2000) – English
  
• Rhode Island bent   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Rhode Island bent grass   (Source: Grass US ) – English
  
• waipu   (Source: Diversity 16:34.2000) – English
  
• xi ruo jian gu ying   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• agrostide commune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• agrostide fine   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• agrostide ténue   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• gemeines Straußgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Rotstraußgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• agrostide tenue   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• polevica tonkaâ   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• agróstide común   (Source: UPOV ) – Spanish
  
• hierba fina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• rödven   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA; Diversity 16:34-35. 2000; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide Grass VarUSA; Diversity 16:34-35. 2000; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Grass VarUSA; Diversity 16:34-35. 2000; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Gene sources: potential gene source for creeping bent grass   (fide Genome 49:333-334. 2006)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands [La Palma]
  Northern Africa: Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan [e.]; Iran [n.]; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Eastern Siberia [w.], Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk [s.], Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk [s.], Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [e.]
  China: China - Henan, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Shanxi, Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - West Virginia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - North Carolina, Virginia
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Dennehy, C. et al. 2011. Management strategies for invasive plants in Pacific Northwest prairies, savannas, and oak woodlands. NorthW. Sci. 85:329–351.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Macfarlane, T. D. & A. R. Williams. 2007. Agrostis castellana (Poaceae) mis-identified as A. capillaris var. aristata in western Australia. Nuytsia 16:472.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union.
• Pickering, C. & W. Hill. 2007. Roadside weeds of the Snowy Mountains, Australia. Mount. Res. Developm. 27:359–367. [as an introduced species].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. [as Agrostis tenuis].
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Ruemmele, B. A. 2003. Agrostis capillaris (Agrostis tenuis Sibth.) Colonial bentgrass. In: Casler, M. D. & R. R. Duncan, eds., Turfgrass biology, genetics and breeding. 11:187–200.
• Ruemmele, B. 2000. Breeding colonial bentgrass for drought, heat, and wear. Diversity 16:34–35.
• Rugolo de Agrasar, Z. E. & A. M. Molina. 1997. Las especies del género Agrostis L. (Gramineae: Agrostideae) de Chile. Gayana, Bot. 54:101.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. [sensu auct. = A. tenuis Sibth.].
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zhao, H. et al. 2006. Genetic diversity in Colonial bentgrass (Agrostis capillaris L.) revealed by EcoRi-Msel and PstI-Msel AFLP markers. Genome 49:328–335. [tetraploid Agrostis capillaris height limits its use as a turf grass, but potentially useful as a genetic source for A. stolonifera].
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= A. tenuis].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agrostis capillaris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Agrostis capillaris.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agrostis capillaris.

Synonyms:

• (=) Agrostis alba var. vulgaris (With.) Coss. & Durieu
  
• (=) Agrostis tenuis Sibth.
  (previously associated with 38 accessions)
• (=) Agrostis vulgaris With.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Agrostis capillaris L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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