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Poa pratensis, commonly known as Kentucky bluegrass (or blue grass), smooth meadow-grass, or common meadow-grass, is a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco.
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
During the 1990s, botanists began experimenting with producing hybrids of Texas bluegrass and Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) for use as wintering foraging plant for grazing livestock [citation needed] and as a drought-resistant lawn grass. The hybrids appear similar to Kentucky bluegrass, but maintain their green color in higher ...
The cultivar Zoysia 'Emerald' (Emerald Zoysia), a hybrid between Z. japonica and Z. tenuifolia, [13] is particularly popular. Some types of zoysia are available commercially as sod in some areas. In typical savanna climates with warm wet and dry seasons, such as southern Florida , zoysia grasses grow during the warm-wet summer and are dormant ...
The use of reel mowers is suggested since common rotary lawn mowers will tear the fine-blade grass and leave a grey/white tip instead of a clean cut. [citation needed] Emerald Zoysia has an adverse reaction to excessive fertilization, requiring no more than two light distributions per year. 8-8-8 or 13-13-13 fertilizer is recommended.
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) is the most extensively used cool-season grass used in lawns, sports fields, and golf courses in the United States. [14] Annual bluegrass ( Poa annua ) can sometimes be considered a weed.
Five things you need to know from the No. 19 Kentucky Wildcats’ 88-68 win over the Florida A&M Rattlers in the Unity Series at Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center:. 1. So far in 2022-23, there’s ...
Unlike Kentucky blue grass, buffalograss is a warm-season grass, [12] a group of grasses that grows better at temperatures above 15 °C (59 °F). [13] As a warm season grass it becomes green late in the spring and dries out early in the fall. [8] The dried leaves and inflorescence stalks persist through the dormant period, turning a light ...