13-826: (Redirected from Red Top ) Red Top , Red-top or Redtop may refer to Agrostis gigantea – a perennial grass known as "Black Bent" or "redtop grass" Brewster Red Tops , previous name of the Brewster Whitecaps Hawker Siddeley Red Top , an air-to-air missile Red top tubes , used to collect samples of blood serum Red Top (Dallas County), Missouri , United States Red Top (Webster County), Missouri , United States Red Top Mountain State Park in Georgia, United States Redtop Mountain , Canada Harvard's training facility for
26-399: A song recorded by Don Patterson on the album Four Dimensions C20LET – a 2.0L Turbo engine produced by Vauxhall/Opel in the 1990s, named after the red valve cover Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Red top . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
39-518: A weed on arable land. This species is similar to Agrostis stolonifera , with the key difference being that the latter has stolons . In fact the two are sometimes treated as a single species, and it is not always clear precisely what an author means by Agrostis alba or Agrostis stolonifera . Many internet sources describe Agrostis capillaris as being the tallest of the bent species. However C E Hubbard describes its height as ranging from 10 to 70 centimeters in high, whereas Agrostis gigantea
52-415: Is stoloniferous and may form mats or tufts. The prostrate stems of this species grow to 0.4–1.0 metre (1 ft 4 in – 3 ft 3 in) long with 2–10-centimetre (0.79–3.94 in) long leaf blades and a panicle reaching up to 40 cm (16 in) in height. The ligule is pointed and up to 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long. This differs from common bent, Agrostis capillaris , which
65-399: Is 40–120 centimetres (16–47 in). Marjorie Blamey , Richard and Alastair Fitter also describe black bent as being taller. The leaves are dull green. The ligule is blunt, but toothed and up to 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long. The panicle is open and loose, of green or purplish colour. It flowers from June to August. The leaves are rolled in shoot, not hairy, no auricles, but
78-685: Is a perennial grass of the Agrostis genus . It is native to Europe, but in the cooler areas of North America was widely used as a pasture grass until the 1940s. Although it has largely been replaced by soybeans and more palatable grasses, it still gets some use in poor soils. It was one of the grasses planted in areas disturbed by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline . It generally does well in response to fires, due to survival of rhizomes and seeds. It can be found in open woodland, rough grassland, hedgerows, roadsides and waste ground, and as
91-449: Is possible that it may also be native to northern parts of North America , and in any case it has been widely introduced and naturalised on that continent and in many other places. It is a constituent of wet habitats such as marshy grasslands. Some of its species have adapted to contaminated conditions and can cope with heavy metals. It can exist up to 2,500 feet (760 m). It is the most commonly used species of Agrostis . It
104-532: Is short and does not come to a point. The leaves are tapering, often with a blue-grey colour. The grass is not tufted and the spikelets are red and tightly closed within the panicle . It flowers in July and August. It can be found growing in a variety of habitats including woodlands, grasslands and meadows, wetlands, riparian zones, and as a pioneer species on disturbed sites. It is native to Eurasia and North Africa ( Algeria , Morocco and Tunisia ). It
117-517: Is used for turf in gardens and landscapes, particularly on golf courses. Many of the putting greens as well as an increasing number of fairways in the northern USA are creeping bentgrass. In the 1990s, Scotts Miracle-Gro and Monsanto led early work in creeping bentgrass transgenics looked at glyphosate -resistance. However, due to easy wind pollination, seeds were accidentally dispersed from an experimental farm in Oregon in 2003. Scotts Miracle-Gro
130-698: The Harvard–Yale Regatta Redtop (Belmont, Massachusetts) , William Dean Howells' house Red Top Young , Robert Young, a musician Red top milk – in the UK, skimmed milk with a fat content of between 0.1 and 0.3% " Red tops " – in the UK, tabloid newspapers such as The Sun , the Daily Star , the Daily Mirror , and the Daily Record known for their red mastheads "Red Top",
143-454: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_top&oldid=1229420941 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Agrostis gigantea Agrostis gigantea , known by its common names black bent and redtop ,
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#1732771780167156-445: The plant has rhizomes. [REDACTED] Media related to Agrostis gigantea at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Data related to Agrostis gigantea at Wikispecies Agrostis stolonifera Agrostis stolonifera ( creeping bentgrass , creeping bent , fiorin , spreading bent or carpet bentgrass ) is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae . It is widely used as turf for golf courses . Agrostis stolonifera
169-697: Was fined $ 500,000 as a result. In 2017, the USDA agreed not to regulate it at Scotts request, which meant that Scotts "will no longer be legally required to pay to clean up the grass after 2017, though it has promised to do so." A 2004 gene flow study (with scientific sampling methods) documents gene flow on a landscape level, with a maximum at 21 kilometres (13 mi) and 14 km (8.7 mi) (respectively) in sentinel and resident plants observed by scientist, located in primarily nonagronomic places such as irrigation ditches. Other work in transgenic bentgrass looks into salinity tolerance. The improved performance of
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