Cool Season
A turfgrass with red/purple coloration on its leaf sheath
What is Perennial Ryegrass or Poa triv
Most warm season turfgrasses have what present on their collars, ligules, and leaf blades?
Hairs
What is the latin name for Creeping Bentgrass?
Agrostis stolonifera
Name one type of infloresence structure
What is spike, raceme, or panicle
The three types of growth habits are
What are stolons, rhizomes, and bunch type growth
Group of cool season grasses has boat shaped tips
What are Bluegrasses
What kind of leaf tip does St. Augustinegrass have?
What is blunted, round leaf tip
What is the latin name for Kentucky Bluegrass?
Poa pratensis
Name the two types of vernations
What is rolled and folded
Name a cool season grass with stolons
What is Poa triv, Creeping Bentgrass, Colonial Bentgrass, or Velvet Bentgrass
Name one characteristic of Tall Fescue
What is prominent leaf veins, hairs at ligule, small auricle
What is the difference between common and hybrid Bermudagrass?
Hybrid Bermudagrass has finer leaf blades and grows more densely than Common Bermudagrass, Hybrid Bermudagrass produces sterile seeds
What is the latin name for Colonial Bentgrass?
What is Agrostis capillaris?
Name a turfgrass that has an auricle
What is Tall Fescue, Perennial Ryegrass, or Annual Ryegrass
Which of the fine fescue species has rhizomes?
What is Strong Creeping Red Fescue
The turfgrass that produces a seedhead at any height
What is Annual Bluegrass
Which warm season grass has stout, dense rhizomes
Bahiagrass
What is the latin name for Bahiagrass?
Paspalum notatum
Why are infloresences a poor ID tool for turfgrasses?
What is - they are mowed off and not always visible?
Name a turfgrass that has rhizomes and stolons?
A turfgrass with a long, toothed ligule
What is Creeping Bentgrass or Velvet Bentgrass
What is one difference between warm and cool season grasses?
What is warm season grasses have a lower frost tolerance, cool season grasses have lower light and temperature requirements, the number of carbons produces in photosynthesis
The latin name for Hybrid Bermudagrass
What is Cynodon dactylon x Cynodon transvaalensis
Name two characteristics of monocots
What are parallel veins, one cotyledon at germination, and fibrous root system
Name the three bluegrasses and their corresponding growth habit
Annual Bluegrass - Bunch Type
Kentucky Bluegrass - Rhizomes
Poa triv - Stolons