Agrostis hyemalis (Walt.) B.S.P.
Winter Bentgrass

Habit: 		Tufted perennial.
Culms: 		Very slender, erect-20-80 cm. tall, simple or tufted.
Blades: 	Usually flat scabrous leaves, the tufted basal ones soon involute, the upper 3-10 cm. long,
		less than 2 mm. wide.
Sheaths: 	Usually longer than the internodes.
Ligule: 	Membranous, 2-4 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle large and diffuse, 20-30 cm. long, purplish, the whorled scabrous capillary
		branches spikelet-bearing near the ends, flexuous, drooping.
Spikelets: 	1.5-2 mm. long, numerous, small, 1-flowered, disarticulating above the glumes, crowded
		at the ends of the branches.
Glumes:  	Nearly equal, purplish or pale, about 2 mm. long, acute or acuminate, persistent,
		membranous, keeled, awnless.
Lemmas: 	Obtuse, 5-nerved, 1.2-2.3 mm long, two thirds to three fourths as long as the first glume,
		thin-hyaline, awnless or rarely awned.
Palea: 		Wanting.
Habitat: 	Meadows and moist open ground.
Remarks: 	The panicle breaks away at maturity becoming a tumbleweed.
Synonyms:	Agrostis antecedens Bickn.Synonyms:	Agrostis antecedens Bickn.