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|accepted_name=Agrostis canina
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Velvet bent;Agrostide des chiens
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|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Agrostis;Agrostis canina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Agrostis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Agrostis canina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 643
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; appearing loosely cespitose and forming a rather closed turf, stoloniferous, stolons to 25 cm, slender, leafy, weakly rooting and eventually producing tufts of shoots at the nodes, without rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 15-75 cm, erect, frequently geniculate at the base, sometimes weakly rooting at the lower nodes, with 2-4(6) nodes. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; sheaths usually smooth, sometimes scabrous distally; ligules 1-4 mm, dorsal surfaces scabridulous, apices truncate to obtuse or acute, erose-lacerate; blades 1-10 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, usually flat, sometimes involute, usually scabrous, apices acute. <b>Panicles</b> 3-10 cm long, 1-7 cm wide, open, often lax, lanceolate to broadly ovate, lowest node with 3-7 branches; branches more or less scabrous, erect to spreading, usually branched above midlength, spikelet-bearing in the distal 1/3, patent at anthesis, lower branches 3-5 cm; pedicels (0.4)1-3 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> lanceolate or narrowly oblong, brownish yellow to purplish or rarely greenish. <b>Glumes</b> subequal, 1.7-3 mm, 1-veined, scabrous only on the distal part of the midveins, acute; callus hairs to 0.1 mm; lemmas 1-2 mm, about 2/3 the length of the glumes, bases minutely pubescent, otherwise glabrous, translucent to opaque, 5-veined, veins prominent or obscure, apices acute to obtuse, entire, usually awned from near the base, awns to 5 mm, geniculate, rarely unawned, awned and unawned lemmas sometimes mixed within the panicle; paleas absent, or to about 0.2 mm and thin; anthers 3, 1-1.5 mm, at least 1/2 as long as the lemmas. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.8-1.2 mm; endosperm solid. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Maine;Conn.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;R.I.;N.J.;Del.;Md.;W.Va.;Pa.;Minn.;Mich.;Tenn.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Vt.;Oreg.;Greenland;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.
|discussion=<p><i>Agrostis canina</i> is a Eurasian species that is now established in both western and eastern North America, where it grows on roadsides and open ground in summer-cool climates. It is used for fine-textured lawns and golf greens. Similar to <i>A. vinealis</i> (see next), it may be differentiated from that species by its creeping, leafy stolons that form a dense carpet, and the finer, softer texture of its leaves. Unawned plants have been called <i>A. canina</i> <i></i>var.<i> mutica</i> G. Sinclair.</p>
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name=Agrostis canina
|authority=L.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Sandy Long
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Maine;Conn.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;R.I.;N.J.;Del.;Md.;W.Va.;Pa.;Minn.;Mich.;Tenn.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Vt.;Oreg.;Greenland;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;P.E.I.;Que.
|reference=None
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|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Agrostis
|species=Agrostis canina
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