| Scientific Name: | Agrostis capillaris |
| Common Name: | colonial bentgrass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Mounded, Vase |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Golf green |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Ciliate |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Red, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Thatchy, dense, somewhat tufted with short stolons; rhizome short, thin; +/- stolons leaf vernation rolled; leaf blades narrow 1-3.5mm wide, soft, flat, tapering leaf blades, pointed, canoe-shaped tips, prominent veins on the upper sides of leaf blades margin finely toothed, auricles absent; ligule 0.3-1.2mm, finely toothed; culms c.s. round with closed sheath, sheath longer than internodes. Field ID terms: pastel-soft, blue-grey-silver, pointy tip, rolled, soft feel, puffy/ elevated crowns. | |