Distributed all over the British Isles, black-grass

                       
is most abundant in cultivated land in South-East England. However, it has gradually spread North and West, recently arriving in South-East Scotland and Northumberland. It remains rare in northern Scotland. Soil type.

      Chemical control should start with the use of glyphosate on stubbles, stale seedbeds or cultivated soils to 'burn-off' any emerged black-grass prior to drilling the crop.
                  

         Ophiopogon Planiscapus Nigrescens common name Lilyturf is also referred to as Black Grass or Black Mondo Grass. It is a clump forming small grass with narrow curving, almost black but in fact very dark purple leaves.