Agrostis

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Agrostis - annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)

genus Agrostis

plant genus - a genus of plants

family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane

bent grass, bent-grass, bent - grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens

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The clay sub-surface soils at the site have impeded permeability, and vegetation in the base of the depression consists largely of the introduced Carpet Bentgrass Agrostis stolonifera, Weeping Grass Microlaena stipoides, Broom Rush Juncus sarophorus and club-sedge Isolepis sp.

Observations of recruitment failure and success in relation to rainfall for an isolated population of the Southern Toadlet Pseudophryne semimarmorata

Among the best are some of the bents (agrostis), cocksfoot, false brome, fescues and meadow grasses.

CREATE A BRILLIANT BREEDING GROUND FOR BUTTERFLIES

The landmark papers "Evolution in closely adjacent plant populations" (Antonovics, 2006 and references therein) focused on the evolution of metal tolerance in the grasses Anthoxanthum odoratum and Agrostis tenuis on mine tailings in Europe.

Lessons on Evolution from the Study of Edaphic Specialization

Los estudios de dieta de esta especie en Puno, Tacna y Moquegua (la presente investigacion) coinciden en especies como Oxychloe andina, Hypochaeris taraxacoides, Distichia muscoides, Poa spp, Agrostis sp., Calamagrostis spp.

Dieta del Suri, Rhea pennata (Orbigny, 1834) (Aves: Rheidae), en ecosistemas altoandinos de Moquegua, Peru

Pooideae Brachypodium 1 spp., Bromus 6 [29 generos, 136 spp., Melica 1 spp., Triniochloa 1 spp.] spp., Agrostis 7 spp., Alopecurus 2 spp., Anthoxantum 1 spp., Avena 3 spp., Calamagrostis 20 spp., Dactylis 1 spp., Dielsiochloa 1 spp., Festuca 25 spp., Koeleria 2 spp., Lolium 1 spp., Poidium 1 spp., Polypogon 2 spp., Trisetum 3 spp., Poa 30 spp., Vulpia 3 spp., Aciachne 2 spp., Anatherostipa 1 spp., Jarava 4 spp., Nassella 8 spp., Orthachne 1 spp., Piptochaetium 1 spp., Elymus 1 spp., Hordeum 1spp., Secale 1 spp.,

Catalogo de las Gramineas (Poaceae) de Huancavelica, Peru

Alongside the already dominating Phragmites, a remarkable increase was observed in the frequency of Phalaris arundinacea, Glyceria maxima, Sium latifolium, Agrostis stolonifera, and Rorippa amphibia.

Eutrophication-driven spatial and temporal changes in macrophyte diversity in Lake Peipsi/Eutrofeerumisest tingitud ajalistest ja ruumilistest muutustest Peipsi jarve suurtaimede liigirikkuses

Nonnative species are indicated by an * Aboveground and Aboveground only Seed bank only seed bank Acer saccharinum Aristida oligantha Abutilon theophrasti * Achillea Capsella Acalypha rhomboidea millefolium * bursa-pastoris * Agalinis auriculata Cardamine hirsuta * Agrostis gigantea * Agalinis tenuifolia Carex tribuloides Amaranthus tuberculatus Agrimonia Cyperus esculentus Ambrosia parviflora artemisifolia Agrimonia pubescens Cyperus strigosus Ambrosia trifida Allium cemuum Descurainia sophia * Barbarea vulgaris * Andropogon gerardii Dicanthelium Bras sica sp.

Restoration implications of land management legacy on aboveground and seed bank composition of North American Grasslands

and Agrostis castellana (Figure 3b, Tables 3 and 4), as well as some western endemic element such as Echinospartum barnadesii (Sanchez-Mata, 1989, 1999; De la Fuente & Ortunez, 2001).

Syntaxonomical update on the relict groves of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris var. iberica) and Spanish black pine (Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii) in the Gredos range (central Spain)/Estudio sintaxonomico de los bosques relicticos de pino silvestre (Pinus sylvestris var. iberica) y pino negro (Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii) en la sierra de Gredos (centro de Espana)

The grasses included Agrostis munroana (bentgrass), Agrostis vinealis (brown bentgrass), Apluda mutica (Mauritian grass), Aristida adscensionis (common needle grass) and meadow grass Poa spp.

Conservation Status of Himalayan Grey Goral (Naemorhedus goral bedfordi Hardwicke, 1825) in Machiara National Park, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

The genus Agrostis, commonly known as the bentgrasses, is an extremely diverse and highly outcrossing genus.

The greatest show on turf

Indeed, the reviewer, probably John Templeton, another of the natural leaders circle, attacked Richardson for his refusal to use the universally recognized scientific Linnaean description of the grass as Agrostis stolonifera.