Name: lanatus is Latin for 'woolly'.
English: Yorkshire fog; Tufted grass; Meadow soft grass; Velvet grass; Common velvet grass.
Botany: hairy texture; perennial grass; leaves velvety, grey-green; stems round, base white with pink stripes or veins, called "stripy pyjamas"; inflorescence robust, tinged purple; seed many, rapid coloniser of disturbed ground; habitat wet ground, often around drainage ditches