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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 ...
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 ...
Common names include meadow-grass (mainly in Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly in North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass. Poa ( πόα ) is Greek for ' fodder '. Poa are members of the subfamily Pooideae of the family Poaceae .
These species, commonly called zoysia or zoysiagrass, are found in coastal areas or grasslands. [5] It is a popular choice for fairways and teeing areas at golf courses. The genus is named after the Slovenian botanist Karl von Zois (1756–1799).
The grass family is one of the most widely distributed and abundant groups of plants on Earth. Grasses are found on every continent, [ 27 ] [ 28 ] including Antarctica . The Antarctic hair grass, Deschampsia antarctica is one of only two flowering plant species native to the western Antarctic Peninsula .
Agriculture, forestry and other prized Kentucky industries are at risk because of a range of invasive plant species in the state. These 10 plants are among Kentucky's most notorious invasives. How ...
Shade-tolerant species are species that are able to thrive in the shade, and in the presence of natural competition by other plants. Shade-intolerant species require full sunlight and little or no competition. Intermediate shade-tolerant trees fall somewhere in between the two.
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 ...