Genus: 1 species.
English: Matgrass.
Dutch: Borstelgras.
Name: from Greec nardos.
Region: Eurasia, northeastern North America.
Botany: habitat heath, moorland, hills, mountains, nutrient poor acidic sandy to peaty soils, strongly calcifuge, avoiding calcareous soils, grazed land; tough, unpalatable.
BotsanyFlowers: flowers from June until August; culms erect, ± 40 cm long; leaves grey-green blades, filiform, involute; roots and shoots are very closely packed together at the base of the plant producing a white, tough, highly reflective feature; spikelets very slender, loosely overlapping in two rows each side of the spikelet axis.