Yorkshire fog
tufted grass
meadow soft grass
holcus lanatus latin

The dominant grasses are common bent, red fescue and Yorkshire Fog.

Yorkshire Fog, tufted grass and meadow soft grass are the common names used.

Yorkshire fog a very widespread and versatile grass able to exploit widely different soil conditions and management practices.

The caterpillar is green with a short, forked tail and feeds on various species of grass including Yorkshire Fog.

Other species recorded include Yorkshire fog, orache, common scurvy-grass and tree-mallow which forms temporary stands in some years.

Holcus lanatus, known as Yorkshire Fog or velvet grass, is a perennial grass.

The fields are old London clay grassland, dominated by Yorkshire fog with some tufted hair-grass.

Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus)

Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog; Europe and western Asia; also widely naturalised elsewhere)

In early July, there are common sorrel, the purple glass Yorkshire Fog, Southern Marsh-orchids, yellow rattle and valerian.

On shallow slopes, this gives way to a neutral grassland characterised by false oat-grass, Arrhenatherum elatius, and Yorkshire fog, Holcus lanatus.

Holcus lanatus, more commonly known as Yorkshire Fog or Velvet Grass, is a species of perennial pasture grass noted for its hairy texture.

The dominant grasses are Common Bent, Red Fescue, Crested Dog's-tail and Yorkshire Fog.

It contains flower-rich unimproved grassland which is dominated by Yorkshire Fog, with a good variety of other grasses, and Tufted hair-grass is dominant in damper areas.

The grass species include Crested Dog's-tail, Sweet Vernal-grass, Yorkshire Fog, Red Fescue and Quaking-grass.

There was a reasonable variety of grasses already there, both coarse ones, such as Yorkshire fog, timothy, and meadow foxtail, and finer bents and fescues where the soil wasn't quite so fertile.

In the Waikato the original English grasses used by earlier settlers - browntop, fescue and Yorkshire Fog - have been replaced with higher producing Italian ryegrass and nitrogen-fixing white clover.

The grassland is poorly-drained and is dominated by tufted hair-grass Deschampsia caespitosa, Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus, red fescue Festuca rubra and great burnet Sanguisorba officinalis.

On the heavily-grazed hill top is an acid grassland vegetation, in which Yorkshire fog, Holcus lanatus, common bent, Agrostis capillaris, and red fescue, Festuca rubra, are the predominant grasses.

Plants there include the Common Spotted Orchid, the Yorkshire Fog, the Common Mouse-Ear, the Bristly Ox-Tongue, the Silverweed, the Self-Heal and the Common Centaury.

Other areas are either a dry heath/acidic grassland mosaic, characterised by heaths and Western Gorse (Ulex gallii), or semi-improved acidic grassland in which Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus) is abundant.

Wild angelica, Reedmace (bullrush), yellow meadow vetchling, Yorkshire fog grass, Tussock grass, and Meadowsweet were also noted and Brooklime speedwell grows within the ditch of the Joppa Burn inflow.

Three against one, they rolled Harry in the tufted grass.

At first there was semi-cultivated land covered with tufted grass.

Possible also that the fellow could have crept away, along the tufted grass; to leave Harry watching no one.

Sunshine smiled on the rocky landscape covered by tufted grass.

Someone was moving slowly across the tufted grass.

As he resumed his mount, he saw a body lying in the tufted grass.

He thudded heavily upon the dried ground and rolled along the tufted grass.

She walked towards it heavily over the tufted grass, with pale lips and a sense of trembling.

I half slid the remaining few feet and fetched up on the thick tufted grass at the foot.

This is above timber-line but not too high for comforting by succulent small herbs and golden tufted grass.

Their diet consists of tufted grass, bark, leaves, buds, fruit, and roots.

As he stumbled through the tufted grass, he shielded his eyes and tried to see past the glare from the surface of the plain.

Yorkshire Fog, tufted grass and meadow soft grass are the common names used.

It is a tall, tufted grass similar to tall fescue Festuca arundinacea.

Puccinellia macquariensis is a species of salt-tolerant, perennial, tufted grass in the Poaceae family.

We advance, while the flock beats off down slope, away; the lieutenant fires once more and another tiny, jerking body drops to the tufted grass.

Whenever I take hold of a woman I feel as though my feet are slithering on tufted grass and goat willow.

The lithe little ship slid smoothly in among the tufted grasses, and touched bottom as gently as a feather lighting.

They are tufted grasses growing to 20-150 cm tall, with cylindrical flowerheads with densely packed spikelets.

And in a moment the ploughman came springing to his feet and running headlong for the cottage, arms pumping, feet stumbling in the tufted grasses.

Poa meionectes, known as the Fine-leaved Snow Grass, is a tufted grass native to south eastern Australia.

Festuca, a genus of about 300 species of perennial tufted grasses, belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae)

Foxtail barley is a fibrous-rooted, densely tufted grass that grows from 30 cm to 100 cm tall and is erect or reclining at the base.

I got past the first stretch quickly, and then clawed my way, half crawling, down the next steep slide across the tufted grasses and the rattling steps of scree.

Ryegrass (Lolium) is a genus of nine species of tufted grasses in the Pooideae subfamily of the Poaceae family.

Yorkshire Fog, tufted grass and meadow soft grass are the common names used.

Cattle do not eat the rare plant and may in fact help clear the land of invasive non-native plants, such as velvetgrass (Holcus lanatus).

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In North America, Holcus lanatus is an invasive species in native grasslands and disrupts other ecosystem also.

Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus)

In a European survey of weed seed contamination in cereal seed in 1970, Holcus lanatus was found in 1% of samples.

British NVC community MG9 (Holcus lanatus - Deschampsia cespitosa grasslands) is one of the mesotrophic grassland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.

Other areas are either a dry heath/acidic grassland mosaic, characterised by heaths and Western Gorse (Ulex gallii), or semi-improved acidic grassland in which Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus) is abundant.

The larvae feed on Alopecurus pratensis, Anthoxanthum odoratum, Avena pubescens, Briza media, Bromus hordeaceus, Dactylis glomerata, Elymus, Holcus lanatus, Koeleria and Poa annua.

Larvae have been recorded on Agrostis, Anthoxanthum odoratum, Carex, Deschampsia cespitosa, Festuca, Holcus lanatus, Phalaris arundinacea and Poa pratensis, but Deschampsia cespitosa is the main hostplant.