Turfgrass Disease Scientific Names - Key Terms in Biology

Algae (not a true disease)

Various terrestrial blue-green algae

Anthracnose

Colletotrichum cereale

Brown Patch

Rhizoctonia solani

Copper Spot

Gloeocercospora sorghi

Dollar Spot

Clarireedia jacksonii

Fairy Ring

Various basidiomycete fungi

Grey Leaf Spot

Pyriculaira grisea

Large Patch of Zoysia

Rhizoctonia solani

Leaf Smuts

Ustilago stiformis and Uroystis agropyri

Leaf Spot and Melting Out

Bipolaris and Drechslera spp.

Necrotic Ring Spot

Ophiosphaerella korrae

Pink Snow Mold

Microdochium nivale

Powdery Mildew

Erysiphe graminis

Pythium Blight

P. Aphanidermatum and P. Graminicola

Pythium Root Dysfunction

Pythium species

Red Thread

Laetisaria fuciformis

Rust

Puccinia graminis

Slime Molds

Physarum and Fuligo spp.

Spring Dead Spot

Ophiosphaerella heroptiricha

Summer Patch

Magnaporthe poae

Take all patch

Gaeumannomyces graminis var.

Yellow Patch

Rhizoctonia cerealis