Brown bent

Agrostis vinealis

Family: Poaceae Genus: Agrostis Species: vinealis

Synonyms: Agrostis canina var. mutica, Agrostis canina var. laevis, Agrostis canina var. alpina, Agrostis canina var. humilis, Agrostis tenuifolia, Agrostis canina var. minor, Trichodium rubrum, Trichodium pusillum, Agrostis stolonifera var. coarctata, Agrostis alba var. coarctata, Agrostis sublaevipes, Agrostis vinealis var. inermis, Agrostis canina var. montana, Agrostis canina var. grandiflora, Agrostis canina var. capillaris, Agrostis canina var. vulgata, Agrostis hyperborea, Agrostis vinealis subsp. ericetorum, Agrostis sublaevirens, Agrostis canina var. pusilla, Agrostis tenuifolia f. mutica, Calamagrostis agrostoides var. pontica, Agrostis borealis subsp. hyperborea, Agrostis vinealis subsp. syreistschikowii, Agrostis vinealis subsp. kudoi, Agrostis syreistschikowii, Agrostis coarctata subsp. syreitchekowii, Agrostis alba subsp. coarctata, Agrostis planifolia, Agrostis kronokensis, Agrostis ruprechtii, Agrostis rubra var. surculifera, Agrostis canina var. spiculis-majoribus, Agrostis canina var. glauca, Agrostis alba subsp. vinealis, Agrostis canina subsp. glauca, Agrostis canina var. sylvatica, Agrostis canina var. scotica, Agrostis canina f. arida, Agrostis syreistschikowii var. mutica, Agrostis coarctata, Agrostis vulgaris var. vinealis, Agrostis canina var. elatior, Agrostis rubra var. hyperborea, Agrostis vinealis subsp. trinii, Agrostis coarctata var. nyaradyana, Agrostis alba subvar. coarctata, Agrostis tenuis f. vinealis, Agrostis vinealis subsp. planifolia, Agrostis surculifera, Agrostis coarctata subsp. hyperborea, Agrostis vinealis var. mutica, Agrostis coarctata subsp. syreistschikowii, Agrostis rubra subsp. ericetorum, Agrostis kudoi, Vilfa coarctata, Agrostis borealis var. hyperborea, Agrostis canina f. montana, Agrostis planifolia var. calamagrostoides, Agrostis borealis subsp. elatior, Agrostis signata var. coarctata, Agrostis canina subsp. montana, Agrostis calamagrostoides, Agrostis canina subsp. elatior, Agrostis flaccida var. trinii, Agrostis decumbens var. coarctata, Agrostis kudoi var. inermis, Agrostis stolonifera subsp. coarctata, Agrostis borealis var. elongata, Agrostis canina subsp. pusilla, Agrostis trinii, Agrostis flaccida subsp. trinii, Agrostis vinealis subsp. turkestanica, Decandolia stolonifera var. coarctata, Agrostis vinealis var. calamagrostoides, Agrostis macrostachya, Agrostis coarctata subsp. trinii, Agrostis wildtii, Agrostis canina var. tenuiloba, Agrostis coarctata var. subalpina, Agrostis canina var. coarctata, Agrostis canina f. elatior, Agrostis rubra var. vinealis, Agrostis arida, Agrostis buchtarmensis, Agrostis canina var. arida, Agrostis turkestanica, Trichodium subalpinum, Agrostis trinii subsp. kudoi, Agrostis palustris var. coarctata, Vilfa vinealis, Agrostis stricta subsp. syreistschikowii, Agrostis marschalliana, Agrostis canina subsp. trinii, Agrostis canina var. tenuifolia, Agrostis pusilla, Agrostis kunmingensis

Brown bent (en)

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Botanical Description

Agrostis vinealis, the brown bent, is a slender perennial grass of the Poaceae family native to Europe, North Africa, and temperate northern Asia. The plant forms loose tufts with short, slender rhizomes and produces erect, smooth culms ten to sixty centimetres tall. The leaf blades are very narrow, flat or inrolled, two to fifteen centimetres long and only one to three millimetres wide, with a finely roughened upper surface. In summer the inflorescence emerges as an open, lanceolate panicle two to twenty centimetres long, often suffused with a reddish-purple tinge that gives the species its common name, the branches spreading at flowering and contracting again in fruit. Each spikelet contains a single fertile floret about two millimetres long, the lemma bearing a short, fine awn from its back. The species favours dry, acidic, sandy or gravelly heaths and pastures.

Native Region: Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China South-Central, Chita, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, South European Russi, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia

Cultural & Historical Context

Traditional American Uses

None Documented

Chemistry & External Identifiers

Trefle ID

224293

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