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2. Ornamental grass - Wikipedia

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   Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass) - many cultivars [6] Deschampsia cespitosa (tufted hair-grass) - many cultivars [6] Festuca arundinacea (tall fescue) - many cultivars [6] Festuca californica (California fescue) Festuca glauca (blue fescue, grey fescue, ornamental blue fescue grass) - many cultivars [6] Festuca idahoensis (Idaho fescue, blue ...

3. Living mulch - Wikipedia

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   Living mulch planted to retard weed growth between corn rows. In agriculture, a living mulch is a cover crop interplanted or undersown with a main crop, and intended to serve the purposes of a mulch, such as weed suppression and regulation of soil temperature. Living mulches grow for a long time with the main crops, whereas cover crops are ...

4. Sod - Wikipedia

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   Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.

5. Poa pratensis - Wikipedia

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   Since the 1950s and early 1960s, 90% of Kentucky bluegrass seed in the United States has been produced on specialist farms in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. During the 1990s [citation needed] botanists began experimenting with hybrids of Poa pratensis and Texas bluegrass (P. arachnifera), with the goal of creating a drought and heat-resistant ...

6. Festuca - Wikipedia

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   Festuca (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of 10–200 cm (4–79 in) and a cosmopolitan distribution , occurring on every continent except Antarctica . [ 2 ]

7. Lolium arundinaceum - Wikipedia

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   In addition to forage, it has become an important grass for turf and soil conservation. Tall fescue is the most heat tolerant of the major cool season grasses. Tall fescue has a deep root system compared to other cool season grasses. This non-native grass is well adapted to the "transition zone" Mid Atlantic and Southeastern United States and ...