Centipede Grass
Centipedegrass is a slow-growing, light-green lawn grass for suitable warm-climate sites.
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Bahia Grass
Paspalum notatum
Bahia grass is a warm-season utility lawn built for sandy, hungry ground where fussier grasses give up.
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Bermuda Grass
Cynodon dactylon
Grow Bermuda grass if you want a dense, sun-loving lawn that shrugs off heat, foot traffic, and summer drought.
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Buffalo Grass
Bouteloua dactyloides
Many people treat buffalo grass like a regular high-input lawn, then wonder why it looks thin and weedy.
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Fescue
Fescue is not a grass, it is a genus. More than 450 species carry the name and about ten make turf, split into a coarse group led…
Fine Fescue
Fine fescue is not one grass. Five species and subspecies share the name and the very fine, needle-like leaf, and they differ in…
Kentucky Bluegrass
Kentucky bluegrass forms a dense lawn and repairs small worn areas through underground rhizomes.
Perennial Ryegrass
Perennial ryegrass comes up in 5 to 10 days, which is why it is in almost every cool-season seed bag.
St. Augustine
St. Augustinegrass forms a broad-bladed warm-season lawn from sod, plugs or sprigs.