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Velvet Bent

Agrostis canina

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 6,525, February 4,820, March 7,551, April 11,880, May 17,129, June 18,678, July 19,986, August 17,188, September 12,619, October 9,419, November 5,147, December 4,023.
United States135,199
Alaska134,966
Russia127
Canada81
New York53
Vladimir Oblast42
Massachusetts33
Quebec33
Nova Scotia26
Pennsylvania25

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Classmonocots · Liliopsida
Ordergrasses, sedges, cattails, and allies · Poales
Familygrasses · Poaceae
Genusbent grass · Agrostis

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Sources

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Practise Velvet Bent with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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