Brown Bent

Agrostis canina L. Sp. PI. 62. 1753
Trichodium caninum Schrad. Fl. Germ. 1: 198. 1806. (Based on Agrostis canina L.)
Agraulus caninus Beauv. Agrost. 5, 146. 147. 1812. (Based on Agrostis canina L.)
Agrostis canina var. alpina Wood, Bot. & Fl. 384. 1870. (Type from mountains of the Eastern
States.) Not A. canina var. alpina Ducomm. 1869. Agrostis alba var. vulgaris f. aristata Millsp. Fl. W. Va. 469. 1892. (Type from Monongalia,
West Virginia.)
Perennial; culms cespitose, glabrous or slightly scaberulous, slender, erect or decumbent at base, 30-50 cm. tall, often producing stolons with fascicled leaves; sheaths glabrous or slightly scaberulous; ligule acute, 2 mm. long; blades flat or loosely involute, mostly less than 1 mm. wide, those of the innovations usually very slender; panicle narrow, loose, 5-10 cm. long, the slender scabrous branches ascending or spreading, as much as 4 cm. long, naked below; glumes equal, acute, 2 mm. long, the lower minutely scabrous on the keel; lemma a little shorter than the glumes, awned about the middle, the awn exserted, bent, the callus minutely pilose; palea minute.
Type locality: Europe.
Distribution: Meadows and open ground, Newfoundland to Quebec, and southward to Delaware and Michigan; possibly native northward but introduced in the United States; native in Kurope and Siberia.