| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Throughout the state, with a large gap in the southern Coastal Plain. The gap is likely to be filled over time, as it likely occurs in all counties.
Native of Europe; in N.A. common in the East and West but scarce in the middle. | |
| Abundance | Frequent to common in the Mountains and Piedmont, but uncommon to infrequent in the Sandhills and Coastal Plain. | |
| Habitat | Seasonally wet to moist or mesic soils of roadside ditches, marshes, meadows, pastures, fens, seepage bogs. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting May-July (-September) | |
| Identification | Velvet-grass is well-named, due to the velvety, whitish hairs that cover the stems and leaf sheaths. The terminal panicle (inflorescence) is also whitish or pallid green, and cylindrical in shape. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | None
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACU link |
| USACE-emp | FAC link |
