Common Name: common velvet grass, creeping soft grass, soft meadow grass, Yorkshire fogScientific Name: Holcus lanatus L.Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced perennial, reproducing by seed Culmsupright, tufted, grayish velvety hairs throughout Leavesblades pale green, whitish gray velvety hairs, prominent midrib; rolled in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous, jagged edge, short hairs at apex; sheaths grayish velvety hairs, striated with purplish-red lines Seedheadsterminal panicle, dense, ovate to cylindrical, short branched, silvery white to often pinkish or purplish, sometimes enclosed in uppermost sheath