Turfgrass cold weather species

What are the bluegrass species?

Kentukey and Hybrid

What are the fesuce species?

Tall, Creeping Red, Chewings, and
Hard

What are the 3 bentgrass species?

Creeping, Colonial, and Velvet

What are the 2 ryegrass species?

Perrenial and anual

Identifiers of Kenturky Bluegrass

– Boat-shaped leaf tip

– No visible ligule (Annual

bluegrass has a large ligule)

– No auricles

– Two light lines astride mid-

vein

– Rhizomes

– Shallow root system

Why did they breed hybrid blue grass? Why is it not used much?

To make it more shade and heat tolerant using texas bluegrass. It has little research

Hybrid Bluegrass ID.

– Boat-shaped leaf tip

– Prominent membranous

ligule

– Rhizomes

– Deep root system

How do you tell the bluegrasses apart?

liguals, deep v.s. shallow roots, Tollerence to shade and heat.

Tall fescue ID

Identification:

– Rolled vernation

– Bunch-type grass, but can

have rhizomes

– Coarse-textured leaves

What is tall fesuce so good at?

Shade tollerence

bads of tall fesuce?

Weeds, cold weather, and bunching

What type of vernation and leaves do all but tall fesuces share?

Folded vernation and fine leaves

Where is creeping red fescue used?

cool climates with shade. No likey sun

how can you tell chewing and red fescue apart?

Red fescue has rhyzomes.

Why is chewing fescue morre used in the midwest?

Has good sun tollerence (still bad in heat)

What growth type do all fescue share except the red?

bunch type

How are all fescue similar?

They suck in the heat and drought but can not be in moist conditions.

Where is creeping bentgrass used?

on golf greens. It can be cut extremely short.

Creeping bentgrass Id

Identification:

– Rolled vernation

– Membranous ligule

– No auricles

– Stolons

– Fine leaf texture

Why is creeping bentgrass so versitile?

It can handle heat, and cold while being cut short.

What makes creeping bentgrass hard to manage

It cannot grow tall or gets disease, it hates shade, and its thirsty.

Colonial Bentgrass use?

Fairways and teeboxes

Colonial Bentgrass ID

Colonial Bentgrass

• Identification:

– Rolled vernation

– Membranous ligule

– No auricles

– Rhizomes and stolons

– Fine-textured leaves

What does Colonial excell at compared to creeping bentgrass. Worse?

It does much better in the shade. It cannot be cut short.

WHat do both the bentgrasses need?

Lots of water, fertilizer,

WHy not velvet bentgrass?

It needs a cooler climate.

Velvent Bentgrass ID

– Rolled vernation

– Stolons

– Broad collar

– Pointed leaf tips

– Very fine-textured leaves

Why does velvet need to also be cut short

disease

WHat does colonial bentgrass have that the other two dont?

Rhizomes

Annual Rye ID

– Rolled vernation

– Distinct claw-like auricles

– Bunch-type

– Back side of leaf is shiny

Perresnial RYeGrass ID

– Folded vernation

– Small claw-like auricles

– Bunch-type growth

– Glossy under-leaf surface

WHat do the ryes have that others do not?

Auricles

How can you tell the ryes apart?

Anual=rolled

perrenial=folded