Aquatic and Wetland Vascular Plants of the Northern Great Plains

Agrostis L. -- Bentgrass

Rhizomatous (sometimes stoloniferous) or tufted perennials with soft, flat leaves and usually open panicles. Spikelets 1-flowered, disarticulating above the glumes; glumes subequal, acute to acuminate, scabrous on the keel, 1-nerved; floret exceeded by both glumes; lemma lanceolate, obtuse, more delicate than the glumes, very faintly 3-nerved; palea absent or rudimentary, or to 2/3 as long as the lemma, scarious.

Lead	Characteristic	Go To
1	Palea absent or rudimentary; plants usually lacking rhizomes or stolons.	Lead 2
1	Palea present, 1/2 to 2/3 as long as the lemma; plants with rhizomes and/or stolons.	A. stolonifera
2	Panicle open and diffuse, the widely spreading main branches branched and bearing spikelets only above the middle.	A. hyemalis
2	Panicle narrow and condensed, the strongly ascending main branches branched and bearing spikelets to near their bases.	A. exarata

63. Poaceae, the Grass Family

2. Agrostis L. -- Bentgrass

1. Agrostis exarata Trin. -- Spikebent

2. Agrostis hyemalis (Walt.) B.S.P. -- Ticklegrass

3. Agrostis stolonifera L. -- Redtop

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