Yorkshire Fog is a soft and hairy perennial grass found widespread across Scotland. ‘Fog’ comes from the old Scottish and Northern English term referring to the second flush of grass that grows after a hay crop has been harvested. Yorkshire Fog is a superseeder with a single plant able to produce a quarter of a million seeds a season! They can disperse easily in the wind and can remain in the soil for many years. There was also a popular local belief that claimed the grass was named for the vast fields of fuzzy flower heads, which resembled the thick smoke, smog or ‘fog’ that used to coat the northern industrial landscape
Yorkshire Fog
feur a' chinn bhàin / Holcus lanatus
Yorkshire Fog, Jane Wisely