Agrostis canina
Panicle of the dog - bentgrass ( Agrostis canina )
The dog - bentgrass ( Agrostis canina ), and marsh bent grass is a plant - type of bouquet grasses in the family of grasses ( Poaceae ). It is a pioneer plant on the banks, in fens and dug up soil.
Description
The dog - bent grass is perennial and forms blue-green lawn. It has long aboveground Kriechsprossen with fully expanded leaves, roots at the nodes and leaf tufts are formed. One finds no underground runners. The bare stalks reach a height of 15 to 75 inches with three to six knots. The ligule form a 2-4 mm long, membranous hem. The leaf blades are 3-15 cm long and 1-2 mm wide. The panicle is 4-15 inches long and up to 7 inches wide. Three to seven side branches going off in tufts from the main axis. The spikelets are flowered and 1.8 to 2.5 millimeters long. The glumes are einnervig, approximately the same length as the spikelet, wherein the upper is somewhat shorter than the lower. The lemma is five annoying, broad - lanceolate, smooth and bare and 1.5 to 1.8 millimeters long. The gekniete awn is 2 to 4.5 millimeters long. The palea is 0.3 to 0.4 millimeters. The anthers are 1 to 1.5 mm long, the fruit of about 1.2 millimeters. The chromosome number is 2n = 14 The flowering period is from June to August.
The species differs from Schmalrispigen bentgrass ( Agrostis vinealis ) and also other grass species with short awns and short palea through the leafy Kriechsprosse and long stamens.
Distribution and habitat requirements
The dog - bent grass forms dense stands in places and is spread from the plains to the mountains. It is found in flat and spring fens, wet meadows and paths, in swamp forests, on mud bottoms of drained ponds and on the coast in grassy dune valleys.
The dog - bent grass can be found throughout Europe. Since it is also used for artificial grass, it has been introduced in other temperate regions.
For the dog - bent grass, or were, some of them only regionally, including the names of hunters beard (Oldenburg ), computational grass (Bern) and bentgrass common.