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Cynosurus cristatus, crested dog's tail, is a dense, tufted, evergreen native grass forming clumps of flat, narrow, fresh-green leaves and slender, wiry stems to 75 cm bearing dense, one-sided, comb-like spikes of purple-green flower spikelets in early summer. A characteristic grass of chalk downland and traditional meadows, valuable for meadow or wildflower lawn mixtures.

About the genus

Cynosurus, the dog's tail grasses, are tufted, annual or perennial grasses native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, forming narrow, flat-leaved clumps and producing wiry stems with dense, one-sided, comb-like spikes of flower spikelets in summer. Used in lawn and meadow seed mixtures.

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