Agrostis pallens - Bent grass

Bent grass (Agrostis pallens) is a low, creeping perennial grass of California meadows and woodlands, delicate and showy mainly in masses, sometimes used as a spring lawn grass.¹ It grows 0.2-0.8 m tall and 0.2-0.6 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹

Type

• Agrostis spp. - Bentgrass
• Herb¹
• Evergreen¹
• Perennial¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Ground cover¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.2-0.8
Diameter (m)	0.2-0.6

Footnotes

1. Agrostis pallens, Bent Grass | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩