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Agrostis capillaris L.  
Family: Poaceae
Colonial Bent
[Agrestis polymorpha (Huds.) Bubani, moreAgrostis alba subsp. vulgaris (With.) Douin, Agrostis alba var. aristata A. Gray, Agrostis alba var. minor Vasey, Agrostis alba var. silvatica (Huds.) K. Richt., Agrostis alba var. stricta Alph. Wood, Agrostis alba var. tenuis (Sibth.) Fiori, Agrostis atroviolacea Sennen, Agrostis capillaris var. aristata (Parnell) Druce, Agrostis capillaris var. aristulata Hitchc., Agrostis capillaris var. pumila (L.) Druce, Agrostis claudii Sennen, Agrostis hispida Willd., Agrostis lithuanica Besser ex Roem. & Schult., Agrostis palustris var. stricta (Willd.) House, Agrostis polymorpha Huds., Agrostis polymorpha var. capillaris (L.) Huds., Agrostis polymorpha var. pumila (L.) Huds., Agrostis pumila L., Agrostis rubra var. pumila (L.) Wimm. & Grab., Agrostis rubra var. tenella (Hoffm.) Wimm. & Grab., Agrostis stolonifera var. hispida (Willd.) Farw., Agrostis stolonifera var. minor (Vasey) Farw., Agrostis stolonifera var. tenella (Hoffm.) Wimm. & Grab., Agrostis sylvatica Huds., Agrostis tenuis Bast. ex Roem. & Schult., Agrostis tenuis f. aristata (Parnell) Wiegand, Agrostis tenuis var. aristata , Agrostis tenuis var. hispida , Agrostis tenuis var. pumila , Agrostis tenuis var. tenuis Sibth., Agrostis vulgaris With., Agrostis vulgaris var. aristata A. Gray, Agrostis vulgaris var. hispida (Willd.) G. Mey., Agrostis vulgaris var. pumila (L.) Klett & Richter ex Peterm., Agrostis vulgaris var. tenella (Hoffm.) Gaudin, Trichodium capillaris (L.) Roth, Trichodium strictum Roem. & Schult., Vilfa divaricata var. pumila (L.) Gray, Vilfa vulgaris (With.) Gray]
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Loosely tufted, rhizomatous and sod-forming, sometimes with stolons as well, 2-6 dm; culms and sheaths smooth; ligule mostly 0.5-2 mm, wider than high, ±truncate; lvs usually spreading or ascending, 2-4 mm wide; panicle 4-15(-20) cm, permanently open, with smooth, divaricate branches and branchlets, even the pedicel-tips smooth; spikelets 2-3 mm, not crowded; glumes glabrous, or scabrous distally on the keel; lemma 1.5-2.5 mm, acute or acutish, rarely awned from the back; callus minutely bearded; palea half to two-thirds as long as the lemma; anthers 0.8-1.5 mm; 2n=28-35. Native of Europe and perhaps e. Can., widely cult. in cooler Amer. for lawns and pastures, and escaped from Nf. to Mich., s. to N.C. and O., and in w. U.S. (A. tenuis)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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