Kentucky Bluegrass, Smooth Meadow Grass, Smooth-Stalked Meadowgrass
Common Names in Estonian:
Aasnurmikas ...
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria.
infestation (Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, USGS)
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Kentucky bluegrass germinates in 14 to 28 days. Use 2 to 3 pounds of seed per thousand square feet. Plant in early fall or early spring. Grows well in full sun to part shade. Does not do well in hot exposures.
The Bitterroot Turf Farm grows Kentucky bluegrass sod and a mixed sod of Kentucky bluegrass and fine fescue. They sell sod to both commercial landscapers and residential owners.
Ground Covers: Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
Mammals: Food and cover for white-tailed deer, moose, cottontail rabbits, snowshoe hares, and numerous birds, including grouse. Fruit also eaten by mice and other mammals.
Lawns composed of cool-season grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue are best aerified in the fall, when there is less heat stress and danger of invasion by weedy annuals.
One of the best known and most important is the sod-forming Kentucky bluegrass, or June grass (P. pratensis), believed to have been introduced from the Old World and now widely naturalized in the United States; ...
The "out" diseases attack lawns at different times during the growing season. In the Northeast, for example, Kentucky bluegrass may be attacked by the "going-out" disease at any time from mid-April to late May.
For example, in the northern United States, lawn seed mixes for shady areas will require more grasses called fescues, which like shade, and less Kentucky Bluegrass, the sun-loving grass of the North.
Kentucky bluegrass
(Poa pratensis) Zone 3
Great Solomon's seal (Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum) Zone 3
Lungwort (Pulmonaria spp.) Zone 3
Arborvitae (Thuja spp.) Zone 2
Canadian hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) Zone 3 ...
Other grain, hay, turf, and weedy grasses may be affected, including wheat, oats, wild rice, Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, redtop, smooth brome, orchardgrass, quackgrass, reed canarygrass, etc.
Though the annual form is described here, there are perennial forms of bluegrass too. Be careful, as Kentucky Bluegrass, Poa pratensis, a commonly planted lawn grass, closely resembles annual bluegrass.
Poa pratensis (Kentucky Bluegrass)
Poa trivialis (Rough Bluegrass)
Pseudosasa japonica (Arrow Bamboo)
Raddia brasiliensis
Saccharum officinarum (Sugarcane)
Sasa palmata (Broadleaf Bamboo)
Sasa tessellata
Sasa veitchii
Sasaella masamuneana ...
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis)
Kew broom, Scotch broom (Cytisus praecox, Cytisus kewensis, Cytisus scoparius)
Kiusianum azalea, satsuki azalea, kyushu azalea (Rhododendron indicum, Rhododendron kiusianum)
Kiwi (Actinidia species) ...
 See also: Grass, Bluegrass, Grasses, May, Fescue
  
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