Sport Field Grasses

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Sport Field Grasses
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Cool Season Grasses

• C3 Plants
• Optimum temp 60 -75
• Most came from Europe Forest Fringe grasses
• Good low temp hardiness
• Established by seed and sod
• In south US grows fall, winter, spring dead or
  dormant in summer
• In north grows spring, summer, fall dormant in
  winter

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Kentucky Bluegrass Poa pratensis

• Blue color
• Medium leaf texture
• Medium leaf density and color
• Forms rhizomes good sod
• Good recuperative potential
• Long lived perennial
• Good low temp hardiness
• Lacks shade adaptation full sun

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Kentucky Blue grass
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Kentucky Bluegrass Cont.

• Good wear tolerance
• Likes fertile, moist well-drained soil pH 6-7.0
• Not drought tolerant
• Tendency to produce thatch
• Several varieties
• Fert .4-1 lb N/1000 sq ft/ growing month
• Med med. high intensity of culture
• Mow 1-2 but 1.5-2 optimal
• Used for fairways, sports fields, lawns

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Creeping Bentgrass Agrostis palustris

• Pale green
• Medium to fine texture
• High density
• Established by seed or vegetatively
• Slow establishment
• Long-lived perennial
• Excellent low temp hardiness
• Tolerant to shade
• Fine textured, fertile, moist soil
• pH 5.5 -6.5

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Creeping Bentgrass
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Creeping Bentgrass Cont.

• tolerant to salinity and flooding
• used on greens (south), tees and fairways (north)
• high culture intensity
• mow .2 -.7
• fert .5 1.4 lbs N/1000 sq ft/ growing months
• prone to thatch
• susceptible to disease

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Tall Fescue Festuca arundinaceae

• very coarse texture
• low density
• medium green color
• established by seed good rate
• bunch type
• short lived perennial
• seed every fall
• poor low temp hardiness
• good heat, drought, wear tolerance

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Tall fescue
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Tall Fescue cont.

• higher compensation point
• medium shade adaptation
• fine texture, moist, fertile soil
• pH 5.5 6.5
• salt, flooding tolerant
• extensive root system
• fert 2-4 lb N/1000 sq ft/per year
• minimal thatch

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Tall Fescue cont.

• good heat, drought, wear tolerance
• med low intensity of culture
• used for lawns, sports fields, roadsides, utility
  areas
• mow turf above 1.5 inches

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Perennial Ryegrass Lolium perenne

• short-lived perennial
• bunch type
• medium texture
• glossy yellow to dark green
• tough fibrous vascular bundles
• good wear resistance
• establishes quickly from seed
• low recuperative potential
• poor tolerance to heat, drought stress

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Perennial Ryegrass
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Perennial Ryegrass cont.

• fertile, moist soil
• pH 6.5 -7
• good salt tolerance
• lawns, sports fields, roadsides
• winter over seeding
• mow 1.5 2
• fert .4 -1 lbs N/1000 sq ft/ growing month
• endophyte enhanced

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WARM SEASON GRASSES

• C4 plants
• Optimum temp 85-95
• West Indies
• Africa
• North America
• Mowed closer
• Deeper rooted
• More heat, drought, wear tolerance
• Less low temp hardiness
• Sod, sprigs, plugs

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Common Bermuda Cynodon dactylon

• Africa
• Med texture
• High density
• Dull green
• Rhizomes, stolons
• Fibrous root system
• Extensive and deep roots
• Established by seed
• Very quickly established
• Long lived perennial

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Common Bermuda Grass
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Common Bermuda cont.

• Good heat, drought, wear tolerance
• Poor shade, low temp tolerance
• Well drained, fine, fertile soil
• pH 5.5 -7.5
• good salt, flooding tolerance
• lawns sports fields, tees, fairways, greens
• med to high culture
• mow .25 1
• fert .8 -1.8 lbs N/1000sq ft/growing months

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Hybrid Bermuda Cynodon transusulensis

• Same as common Bermuda except
• fine texture
• established vegetatively

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Hybrid Bermuda Grass
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Sports Fields

• Football Fields
• Soccer Fields
• Baseball Fields
• Softball Fields
• Tennis Courts
• Practice Fields

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Football Fields
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Baseball Field
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Softball Field
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Grass Tennis Courts
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Practice Fields