Agrostis stolonifera L. Redtop Habit: Tufted perennial, with strong, creeping rhizomes. Culms: 20 -150 cm. tall, erect from a more or less decumbent base. Blades: 4-15 cm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, flat, stiff and upright to lax and spreading, scabrous. Sheaths: Shorter than the internodes. Ligule: Membranous, 3-5 mm. long, fringed. Inflorescence: Panicle upright, exerted, 5-30 cm. long, with spreading branches, the lower usually verticillate, contracted after flowering, greenish or reddish, the branches slightly rough. Spikelets: 2-2.5 mm. long, numerous, small, 1-flowered, long or short scabrous pedicels, rachilla disarticulating above the glumes, and not prolonged. Glumes: Persistent, membranous, scabrous on the keel, acute, awnless, 2-3 mm. long, pale or purplish, nearly equal. Lemmas: Two thirds to three fourths as long as the glumes, obtuse, seldom awned, thin-hyaline. Awn, if present, from near the base. Palea: One half to two thirds as long as its lemma, thin-hyaline. Fruit: Grain loosely enclosed in the lemma. Habitat: Wet meadows, fields and along streams. June-September. Kansas Range: Eastern edge. Use: Cultivated in meadows, pastures and lawns. Synonyms: Agrostis stolonifera L. var. compacta Hartman Agrostis stolonifera L. var. palustris (Huds.) Farw.