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- From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
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- Subject: Re: Burmuda Grass
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.094658.9575@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 09:46:58 -0600
- References: <1992Dec18.194403.16961@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Dec18.190325.9512@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1992Dec20.231254.1061@calmasd.prime.com>
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- In article <1992Dec20.231254.1061@calmasd.prime.com>, jhb@calmasd.prime.com (Jim Bishop) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec18.190325.9512@iscsvax.uni.edu>, klier@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- >> To me, quack is _Agropyron repens_ (nasty stuff!)
- >> witchgrass is _Panicum capillare_ (nuisance). We've got both here
- >> in the midwest.
- >> Bermuda is _Cynodon dactylon_ and looks like crab grass.
- >
- > Now I'm getting confused. I have Bermuda grass. This summer it was
- > loaded with what I called crab grass. The two didn't look anything
- > alike. The Bermuda is very fine textured. The crab grass sorta
- > reminded me of Saint Augustine (as least the blade shape), and
- > it is very invasive.
-
- Oops, sorry, didn't mean to mislead you. Vegetatively, Bermuda does
- look more like St. Augustine. The inflorescence looks more like
- crabgrass (but you're not supposed to let them go to seed! 8-) )
- >
- > We used to have a bermuda lawn when I was a kid in Kansas. It seemed
- > like it was only green a couple months a year, so mowing was no big
- > chore. In high school in Houston, we had Saint Augustine. It used to
- > grow so fast during the summer monsoon season that we had to mow the
- > lawn twice a week sometimes. Also the weight of the grass in the
- > grass catcher used to turn over the mower if you didn't empty it before
- > the bag was full.
-
- Sounds familiar... but Dorothy's lawn was in central FL, and grew
- all year round!
-
- Kay
-