| Scientific Name: | Holcus lanatus |
| Common Name: | velvet grass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like), Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | n/a |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Tomentose, Linear, Ciliate |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Green-yellow, Pink, Red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Clump forming habit; leaf blades 1-1.5cm wide, flat, and sharply pointed and with dense short hairs; auricles absent; ligule 2-3mm long, with flattened top, hairy on leaf blade side only; sheaths tomentose with reflexed hairs, loose, compressed with pink veins; panicles 3-12cm long, spikelets 3.5-6mm long, grayish green-purple; May-Sep. | |