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However, bermudagrass goes dormant during the cooler winter months. Rather than have brown lawns, many homeowners, public areas, and golf courses overseed these lawns with perennial ryegrass in early to mid-September. It is also the grass used on the courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon. Since 2001, the courts have been sown ...
Lolium multiflorum (Italian rye-grass, [2] annual ryegrass) is a ryegrass native to temperate Europe, though its precise native range is unknown. [3] It is a herbaceous annual, biennial, or perennial grass that is grown for silage, and as a cover crop. [4] [5] It is also grown as an ornamental grass.
State State grass Scientific name Image Year adopted California: Purple needlegrass: Nassella pulchra: 2004 [1] Colorado: Blue grama: Bouteloua gracilis: 1987 [2] Illinois: Big bluestem (state prairie grass) Andropogon gerardii: 1989 [3] Kansas: Little bluestem: Schizachyrium scoparium (Andropogon scoparius) 2010 [4] Minnesota: Wild rice (state ...
The primary species found worldwide and used both for lawns and as a forage crop is perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne). Like many cool-season grasses of the Poaceae, it harbors a symbiotic fungal endophyte, either Epichloë or its close relative Neotyphodium, both of which are members of the fungal family Clavicipitaceae. [10] [11]
Perennial cool-season – orchardgrass (cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata), fescue (Festuca spp.), Kentucky bluegrass and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) Annual warm-season – maize, sudangrass, and pearl millet; Perennial warm-season – big bluestem, Indiangrass, Bermudagrass and switchgrass.
Poa pratensis is a herbaceous perennial plant 30–70 centimetres (12–28 in) tall. The leaves have boat-shaped tips, narrowly linear, up to 20 centimetres (8 in) long and 3–5 millimetres (0.12–0.20 in) broad, smooth or slightly roughened, with a rounded to truncate ligule 1–2 millimetres (0.039–0.079 in) long.
Elymus is a genus of perennial plants with approximately 150 species [5] in the grass family, related to rye, wheat, and other widely grown cereal grains. [6] Elymus is a cosmopolitan genus, represented by species across all continents of the world. [7] Common names include couch grass, wildrye and wheatgrass. [8] [9] [10] [11]
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]