''Agrostis castellana'', the highland bent, dryland bent or dryland browntop, is a species of cool-season grass in the family

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

. It is native to

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and the

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, has been widely introduced elsewhere, and is considered an

invasive species An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment. Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage. The term can also be used for native spec ...

in some locales. It is a

hyperaccumulator A hyperaccumulator is a plant capable of growing in soil or water with high concentrations of metals, absorbing them through their roots, and concentrating extremely high levels of metals in their tissues. The metals are concentrated at levels th ...

of zinc and lead.

References

castellana Flora of the Azores Flora of Madeira Flora of the Canary Islands Flora of Morocco Flora of Algeria Flora of Portugal Flora of Spain Flora of France Flora of Corsica Flora of Italy Flora of Yugoslavia Flora of Albania Flora of Greece Flora of Bulgaria Flora of European Turkey Flora of Turkey Flora of Syria Grasses of Lebanon Plants described in 1842 {{Pooideae-stub