''Agrostis castellana'', the highland bent, dryland bent or dryland browntop, is a species of
cool-season grass in the family
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
. It is native to
Macaronesia
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and the
Mediterranean
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, has been widely introduced elsewhere, and is considered an
invasive species
An invasive species otherwise known as an alien is an introduced organism that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment. Although most introduced species are neutral or beneficial with respect to other species, invasive species ad ...
in some locales.
It is a
hyperaccumulator A hyperaccumulator is a plant capable of growing in soil or water with very high concentrations of metals, absorbing these metals through their roots, and concentrating extremely high levels of metals in their tissues. The metals are concentrated a ...
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
Flora of Lebanon
Plants described in 1842
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