Mystery grass in my front lawn

wereworm – posted 01 June 2002 22:08

I have a dense patch of very dense, fine-textured, bluish-green grass that mysteriously cropped up under a live oak in my front yard a few years ago. It’s a lot softer than common Bermuda and is in the shade most of the time. It also doesn’t send out those long viny runners, but it doesn’t grow in clumps like ryegrass or fescue either.

Is this another species of naturally occuring Bermuda (like Cynodon transvaalensis instead of the usual C. dactylon)? A zoysia? Whatever it is, I wish I had more of it.

wereworm – posted 01 June 2002 23:50

After going through some of the other threads here, I realized giving my location & types of lawns growing there would probably be helpful.

Anyway, I’m from Pasadena, CA, and my neighborhood has mostly St. Augustine grass, though a few lawns here and there have Bermudagrass, tall fescue, or both .

frenchman – posted 03 June 2002 20:21

I don’t know awhole lot about CA, but here in Kentucky it sounds like you are talking about a weed called Rush. It’s cousin is Fescue. It doesn’t grow in clumps. It will be in one spot and then stop and 5 ft away it will appear again.

wereworm – posted 04 June 2002 09:58

Well, I looked up rushes but they don’t look like what I have. Also, it’s growing all together in one dense patch. It doesn’t spread very fast (maybe about six inches per year) but nothing else can grow inside it.