| Scientific Name: | Agrostis canina |
| Common Name: | velvet bentgrass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Vase |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Red, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Non-tuft habit; rhizomes present; stolons slender, up to 25cm long; culms round in section; leaf vernation rolled, blade about 1mm wide, flat, tapering to a pointed, canoe-shaped tip, prominent veins on the upper side, finely toothed margins; auricles absent; ligule about 1mm long, jagged tip; sheath closed. | |