What kind of grass do I have in my yard?

Question

The grass in my yard is very carpet like and thick. It takes longer to come in to green in the spring and browns more when it's dry. I live in central Ilinois. I noticed that some of my neighbors who have the same type of grass burn their yards in the spring? Does anyone know what type of grass this is and if I should burn it as they do?

Answer 1

It sounds like zoysia grass. It will turn green after everyone elses around late May early April, and turns gold-brown-yellow in around sep/oct. while some grass is still green. But the grass is very thick like carpet and cant be torn up unless you tried really hard to. You dont have to mow as often as everyone else does. You will not have any weeds in your yard because this grass chokes all the weeds roots to where they cant grow in your yard. It will eventually spread into neighbors yards unless you have a perimeter thing underground about 6 in deep. And it is gorgeous. I hope I helped.

Now you can burn it if you like, because when it is brown sometimes it can catch on fire by like a ciggarette or something....so I have heard. But some people also dye their grass green by proffessionals to make it stay green all year round. And when spring comes around the grass will be back to the original green and you will have to dye it again when it browns.

Answer 2

It sounds like Zoysia Grass:

Description. Zoysiagrasses are sod-forming perennial species that possess both stolons and rhizomes. The grasses turn brown after the first hard frost and are among the first warm season grasses to green up in the spring. The species vary from extremely fine textured to coarse textured types and the leaf blades are very stiff due to a high silica content.

Leaves are rolled in the bud shoot. Leaf blades are smooth with occasional hairs near the base, margins are smooth and blades are sharply pointed. Ligule is a fringe of hairs. Auricles are absent. Leaf sheath is round to slightly flattened, split, glabrous, but with a tuft of hair at the throat. Inflorescence is a short, terminal spikelike raceme with spikelets on short appressed pedicels.

Don't burn it in the spring use a de-thatching rake ----which 'thins' out the dead grass to make space for new groth to come up.

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Answer 3

IT IS MOST LIKELY FESCUE BUT IT COULD BE RYE ASWELL