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Turfgrass Plants
turf plants
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Plant Sciences
Undergraduate 2
12/11/2016

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 -  unfolds

- boat-shaped leaf tip
- single vein down the middle
- no auricles

- medium to dark green color
- no lingule
- aggressive rhizomes

Definition
Kentucky Bluegrass
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- unfolds
- boat shaped leaf tip 
- single vein down the middle 
- no auricles

- has stolons
- lighter green 
- undersides of leaves are somewhat shinny
- short or absent lingules
Definition
Annual Bluegrass
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- unfolds
- boat shaped leaf tip 
- single vein down the middle 
- no auricles

- has st
olons

- lighter green 
- undersides of leaves are somewhat shinny
- short or absent lingules

Definition
Rough (stalk) Bluegrass
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- many veins down leaf 
- smooth leaf edges
- pointed tip
- shinny underside
- bunch type

- folded leaves
- small claw-like or absent auricles

Definition
Perennial Ryegrass
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- many veins down leaf 

- smooth leaf edges

- pointed tip
- shinny underside
- bunch type

- rolled leaves as they emerge
- claw like auricles

Definition
annual ryegrass
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1 leaf unfolds to open
- membranous
- small lingules
- no auricles
- narrow needle-like 
- bright green leaves
- has rhizomes
- feels soft when patted
- pointed leave tips

Definition
creeping red fescue
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 leaf unfolds to open
- membranous
- small lingules
- narrow/ needle-like leaves
- no auricles
- bright to dark green 
- bunch-type 
- feels soft when patted
- pointed leave tips

Definition
Chewings Fescue
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folded leaves
- membranous
- small lingules
- no auricles
- narrowest needle-like leaves
- grey-green to dark green 
- feels prickly when patted
- pointed leaf tip
- bunch-type

Definition
Hard Fescue
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- rolled leaves

- grey-green to blue-green color
- pointed leaf tips
- very stiff
- narrow/needle like leaves
- feels prick;y when patted
- bunch type

Definition
sheep fescue
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 many prominent veins down leaf
- rough leaf edges
- rolled as they emerge
- pointed leaf tips 
- small auricles
- broad collar
- membranous lingule
- may have short rhizomes
- widest leaves

Definition
tall fescue
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rolled leaves
- many prominent veins down the leaf
- pointed leaf tip
- larger lingule
- stolons
- soft leaves
- seen on golf greens

Definition
Creeping Bentgrass
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rolled leaves 
- many prominent veins down leaf
- pointed leaf tip
- long/ pointed lingule
- stolons
- softest leaves in it's grass type

Definition
Velvet Bentgrass
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Definition
colonial bentgrass
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 coarse leaves
- stolons and/or rhizomes
- alternate leaves
- hairy lingule
- hairs on leaves
- pointed leaf tips

Definition
zoysiagrass
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coarse leaves 1/2" wide
- very rounded
- blunt leaf tips
- stolons

 

 

Definition
St. augustine grass
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folded leaves
- finer leaves
- stolons and/or rhizomes
- opposite leaves
- hairy lingule, hairy leaves/collar
- no auricles
- pointed leaf tips
- uneven internodes

Definition
common bermudagrass
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rolled leaves 
- finer leaves and stolons
- hairy lingule
- hairy leaves
- no auriicles
- leaves twist and curl
- pointed leaf tips
- diecious (both male and female flowers)

Definition
buffalograss
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