Crested dog's-tail
Cynosurus cristatus
In Dutch: Kamgras
Ornamental grassesCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 20 to 60 cm
- Spread
- 10 to 50 cm per tuft
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moderately moist to fairly dry, well-drained
- Water
- Average
- Maintenance
- Low: mowing after flowering is fine
- Flowers
- June and July, green with purple anthers
- For bees
- No: crested dog's-tail is pollinated by the wind
- Hay fever
- Very strongly allergenic, June and July
- Leaves
- Stay green
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No, as far as is known
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- Seed only: about €4.36 to €12.95 per packet
- Price, grown
- Not for sale
Through the year
- Leaf
- all year
- Flower
- June to July
- Fruit
- no noticeable fruit