Centipedegrass
Eremochloa ophiuroides
A light green, low growing, warm-season perennial that creeps by slender, flat, leafy stolons. It forms a desirable turf from North Carolina south through Georgia and North Florida and then westward around the Gulf into Arkansas and Texas.
- Stolons: Present
- Rhizomes: Absent
- Leaves: Folded in the bud
- Ligule: A short membrane with short hairs across the top
- Collar: Broad, much constricted, hairy
- Auricles: Absent
- Sheaths: Compressed, flattened, hairs at the edge near the ligule, a prominent mid-vein
- Blades: Compressed or flattened, short, less than 1/4 inch wide, strong mid-vein, sparsely hairy along the edges
- Seedhead: a slender spike
- Spikelets: broad at the base tapering to a rounded tip, a single seed
Recommendations
- Mowing Height: 1 to 2 inches
- Establishment: Sod, Sprig
- Fertilization: 1 to 2 lbs/1000ft2/Year
- Adaptation: Statewide
