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.