| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poaceae | Agrostis altissima | Coastal Bog Bentgrass | Wet pine savannas, sinkhole ponds, edges of swamp forests. | MA (?) and NJ south to se. LA, primarily on the Coastal Plain. | |
| Poaceae | Agrostis canina | Brown Bentgrass, Velvet Bentgrass | Roadsides, disturbed open areas, lawns. | Native of Eurasia. Naturalized in North America to DE, se. PA (Rhoads & Block 2007), WV, and TN (Kartesz 1999). |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis capillaris | Rhode Island Bentgrass, Colonial Bentgrass, Browntop | Meadows, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe (and possibly n. North America). |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis elliottiana | Elliott's Bentgrass, Southern Bentgrass | Dry soils of barrens, fields, and rock outcrops. | MD west to s. OH, and e. KS, south to Panhandle FL (Gadsden County) and c. TX. |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis exarata | Spike Bentgrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of w. North America, a waif in e. North America. Reported for very widely scattered sites in e. North America, including Leslie County, KY (Kartesz 2010, 2020). |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis gigantea | Redtop, Black Bentgrass | Fields, pastures, roadsides, disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis hyemalis | Ticklegrass, Small Bentgrass, Hairgrass | Moist to dry fields, meadows, and roadsides, sometimes also in barrens or thin soils over outcrops. | ME west to WI, south to FL and TX. |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis mertensii | Arctic Bentgrass | In thin soil of high elevation rocky summits; also in riverside flood scour areas at much lower elevations. | Circumboreal, in North America south to ME (Mt. Katahdin), NH (White Mountains), VT, NY (Adirondack Mountains), WV (Spruce Knob), TN (Roan Mountain, Abrams Creek), NC (Roan Mountain, Big Yellow Mountain, Black Mountains), QC, BC, CO, UT (?), and AK. |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis perennans | Upland Bent, Autumn Bentgrass | Mesic to dry forests, woodlands, barrens, clearings, disturbed areas, and also in a variety of wetlands such as bogs, fens, seepage swamps, and depressions. | NL (Newfoundland) west to MN, south to n. FL and TX; c. Mexico south to c. South America. |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis scabra | Fly-away Grass, Rough Bentgrass | Bogs, fens, seeps, meadows, old fields, other open habitats. | Throughout North America, though mainly in cooler climates (ne. and w. United States, Canada), south to s. Mexico; ne. Asia. |  |
| Poaceae | Agrostis stolonifera | Creeping Bentgrass | Disturbed areas, wet, moist, or dry. | Native of Europe. |  |
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