Wide Blade Grass Invading Lawn
Mow your lawn regularly to reduce coarse grass seed production.
Wide blade grass invading lawn. Augustinegrass stenotaphrum secundatum which grows. The white thick part of the grass plant at soil level where the shoot meets the roots. Identifying the type of grass in your lawn helps you mow fertilize and water correctly. Types of grass blades.
It s central to lawn health if the crown dies the grass plant dies. Grass blades shoot forth from tubular sheaths near the crown of the plant which emerges from the root rhizomes or stolons. There are many different types of wide blade grasses with the most common being crabgrass. Crabgrass and other wide bladed grasses typically sprout in late july and are difficult to get rid of until the first frost kills them off.
Grassy weeds are unwanted grass types that grow in home lawns. Your lawn may appear well manicured in spring but hiding beneath those lush blades of grass is a silent invader that is just waiting for midsummer to spring on you. The lower basal portion of the grass leaf between the crown and the blade that encloses and protects young shoots of grass. These grasses usually grow all season long starting in the spring and continuing throughout the fall.
For example if you have bermuda grass but you get some patches of crabgrass or dallisgrass then we call these grassy weeds. They are actually grass but since they are of a different variety than the lawn they are invading we call them weeds.