''Eremochloa ophiuroides'', or centipedegrass, is a species of grass in the family
Poaceae
Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...
. Used as a warm season
lawn grass, it forms thick
sods and spreads by
stolons.
Overview
The grass is medium to light green in color and has a coarse texture with short upright seedhead stems that grow to about 3-5 inches. Native to
Southern China, it was introduced to the United States in 1916
and has since become one of the common grasses in the
Southeastern United States and
Hawaii
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. It can also be considered a weed.
Cultivation
Centipedegrass is a low maintenance grass.
It requires infrequent mowing. Centipedegrass has medium shade tolerance and limited traffic tolerance.
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It is shallow rooted and has poor drought tolerance.
Centipedegrass
survives in mild climates without several hard freezes. With light freezes it will turn brown but recover and re-green as the
temperature
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rises. It does well in sandy and acidic soils.
Centipedegrass has low fertilization requirements.
References
External links
Turf & Grass RollsCentipede Lawns
- The University of Georgia College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Lawn grasses
Andropogoneae
Flora of Asia
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