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Red Top: Agrostis alba

   Red Top is an introduced cool season perennial grass found throughout Canada and the northern U.S.A. It is a sod forming, rhizomatous species of medium height.

    Red Top is a moisture loving species and requires more than 20 inches of annual precipitation. It performs best on clay or clay loam soils but will grow even on sandy sites. It has very good tolerance of acidity and will grow well on soils with pH's above 4.5. It cannot tolerate alkaline soils. Red Top also has a very good tolerance of flooding. Red Top has poor tolerance to drought and salinity.

Use and Management:

    Red Top has good seedling vigor and will establish fairly quickly. Its best reclamation use is on wetter sites which have acidic soil conditions.

    Its strongly rhizomatous nature makes Red Top a good erosion control species. Red Top has fairly low palatability which means it can provide cover for some nesting waterfowl.