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    Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses: A Manual for Use and Identification
    Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses: A Manual for Use and Identification
    Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses: A Manual for Use and Identification
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    Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses: A Manual for Use and Identification

    By David E. Aldous and Ian H. Chivers

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    Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses is a comprehensive reference for anyone involved with the selection and maintenance of grasses used in sports and amenity areas in all areas. It provides a means to identify these grasses through keys, descriptions and photographs, and also provides detailed information on sowing, oversowing, stolonising and mowing heights.

    The performance of each grass is assessed and detailed comments made on positive and negative aspects of its use. A grass’s tolerance to high temperature, frost, drought, shade, wet soil, salinity, low soil fertility, wear and close mowing is given in a table with each aspect rated. Further comments are made on how well it combines with particular grasses and on issues such as seedling vigour and sowing times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLandlinks Press
    Release dateJun 13, 2002
    ISBN9780643099609
    Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses: A Manual for Use and Identification

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    Sports Turf and Amenity Grasses - David E. Aldous

    Sports turf &

    amenity grasses

    A MANUAL FOR USE AND IDENTIFICATION

    D E Aldous and I H Chivers

    Colour illustrations by Enid Mayfield

    National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

    Aldous, David E., 1946–.

    Sports turf and amenity grasses: a manual for use and identification.

    Bibliography.

    Includes index.

    ISBN 0 643 06666 7 (hardback).

    ISBN 0 643 09001 0 (eBook).

    1. Turfgrasses. 2. Turfgrasses – Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Turf management – Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Chivers, Ian (Ian H.). II. Title.

    635.9642

    © 2002 David E Aldous and Ian H Chivers

    All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, duplicating or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Contact the publisher for all permission requests.

    Available from:

    Landlinks Press

    150 Oxford Street (PO Box 1139)

    Collingwood VIC 3066

    Australia

    Photographs by Ian H Chivers; colour illustrations by Enid Mayfield

    Set in 9pt Frutiger Light

    Cover and text design by James Kelly

    Typeset by James Kelly

    Printed in Australia by Brown Prior Anderson

    Contents

    About the authors

    Preface

    Major sports turf and amenity grasses

    Minor sports turf and amenity grasses

    Further reading

    Helpful links

    Turfgrass identification

    Turfgrass terminology

    Terms

    Using a visual turfgrass key

    Key to common turfgrasses

    MAJOR SPORTS TURF AND AMENITY GRASSES

    Cool season grasses

    Agrostis capillaris Browntop bentgrass

    Agrostis stolonifera Creeping bentgrass

    Festuca arundinacea Tall fescue

    Festuca longifolia Hard fescue

    Festuca rubra ssp. commutata Chewing’s fescue

    Festuca rubra ssp.rubra Red fescue

    Lolium perenne Perennial ryegrass

    Poa annua Annual bluegrass

    Poa pratensis Kentucky bluegrass

    Poa trivialis Rough stemmed bluegrass

    Warm season grasses

    Axonopus affinis Narrow-leaf carpetgrass

    Axonopus compressus Broad-leaf Carpet grass

    Buchloe dactyloides Buffalo grass

    Cynodon dactylon Bermuda grass

    Cynodon dactylon × C. transvaalensis Hybrid bermudagrass

    Dactyloctenium australe Durban grass

    Digitaria didactyla Queensland blue couch

    Eremochloa ophiuroides Centipede grass

    Paspalum dilatatum Dallis grass

    Paspalum notatum Bahia grass

    Paspalum vaginatum Seashore paspalum

    Pennisetum clandestinum Kikuyu grass

    Stenotaphrum secundatum St Augustine grass

    Zoysia japonica Japanese lawngrass

    Zoysia matrella Manila grass

    Zoysia tenuifolia Korean lawngrass 76

    MINOR SPORTS TURF AND AMENITY GRASSES

    Cool season grasses

    Agrostis alba Redtop bentgrass

    Agrostis canina ssp. canina Velvet bentgrass

    Austrodanthonia spp. Wallaby grass

    Bromus catharticus Prairie grass

    Cynosurus cristatus Crested dog’s tail grass

    Dactylis glomerata Orchard grass

    Ehrharta calycina Perennial veldt grass

    Elytrigia repens Twitch grass

    Festuca ovina Sheep fescue

    Festuca pratensis Meadow fescue

    Holcus lanatus Meadow softgrass

    Lolium multiflorum Italian ryegrass

    Microlaena stipoides Weeping grass

    Phleum pratense Timothy grass

    Poa compressa Canada bluegrass

    Poa pratensis × P. arachnifera Reveille bluegrass

    Poa supina Supina bluegrass

    Puccinellia distans Alkali grass

    Warm season grasses

    Bothriochloa macra Red grass

    Chloris gayana Rhodes grass

    Chloris truncata Windmill grass

    Chloris ventricosa Tall chloris

    Cynodon nlemfuensis African stargrass

    Cynodon transvaalensis South African bermudagrass

    Eragrostis cilianensis Spreading lovegrass

    Panicum laxum Lax panic grass

    Panicum repens Torpedo grass

    Paspalum distichum Mercer grass

    Paspalum nicorae Brunswick grass

    Sporobolus virginicus Marine couch

    Zoysia macrantha Prickly couch

    Index

    About the authors

    Preface

    To many people grass is unimportant. They walk on it, run on it, sometimes sleep on it, yet they pay little attention to it. This book will be of no interest to them. This book will be of great interest, however, to people who love to mow their lawn, repair the sports field, worry about the lie of the ball on the green or are interested in improving their environment by reducing pollution. This book is written to help identify the grasses that they mow, repair, fertilise and otherwise take care of. It aims to help identify the grasses in their turf and how they are likely to perform.

    The turfgrass manager needs to be able to identify the grasses that are being used in order to tailor the management to its characteristics. The manager also needs to be able to select the best grass for a particular site to ensure the most suitable combination for the needs of that site. Turfgrass identification commonly depends heavily on the reproductive characteristics of the plant but often the flower head, or inflorescence, has been removed in the mowing

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