Cool Season
Warm Season
Latin Name
ID Structures
Growth Type
100

A turfgrass with red/purple coloration on its leaf sheath

What is Perennial Ryegrass or Poa triv

100

Most warm season turfgrasses have what present on their collars, ligules, and leaf blades?

Hairs

100

What is the latin name for Creeping Bentgrass?

Agrostis stolonifera

100

Name one type of infloresence structure

What is spike, raceme, or panicle

100

The three types of growth habits are

What are stolons, rhizomes, and bunch type growth

200

Group of cool season grasses has boat shaped tips

What are Bluegrasses

200

What kind of leaf tip does St. Augustinegrass have?

What is blunted, round leaf tip

200

What is the latin name for Kentucky Bluegrass?

Poa pratensis

200

Name the two types of vernations

What is rolled and folded

200

Name a cool season grass with stolons

What is Poa triv, Creeping Bentgrass, Colonial Bentgrass, or Velvet Bentgrass

300

Name one characteristic of Tall Fescue

What is prominent leaf veins, hairs at ligule, small auricle

300

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

300

What is the latin name for Colonial Bentgrass?

What is Agrostis capillaris?

300

Name a turfgrass that has an auricle

What is Tall Fescue, Perennial Ryegrass, or Annual Ryegrass

300

Which of the fine fescue species has rhizomes?

What is Strong Creeping Red Fescue

400

The turfgrass that produces a seedhead at any height

What is Annual Bluegrass

400

Which warm season grass has stout, dense rhizomes

Bahiagrass

400

What is the latin name for Bahiagrass?

Paspalum notatum

400

Why are infloresences a poor ID tool for turfgrasses?

What is - they are mowed off and not always visible?

400

Name a turfgrass that has rhizomes and stolons?

What is Zoysiagrass, Bermudagrass, Bahiagrass, or Seashore paspalum
500

A turfgrass with a long, toothed ligule

What is Creeping Bentgrass or Velvet Bentgrass

500

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

500

The latin name for Hybrid Bermudagrass

What is Cynodon dactylon x Cynodon transvaalensis

500

Name two characteristics of monocots

What are parallel veins, one cotyledon at germination, and fibrous root system

500

Name the three bluegrasses and their corresponding growth habit

Annual Bluegrass - Bunch Type

Kentucky Bluegrass - Rhizomes

Poa triv - Stolons