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Eremochloa ophiuroides (centipede grass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Centipedegrass (Eremochloa ophiuroides) is a warm season lawn grass that is thick sod forming, uniform hugs the ground growth spreading by stolons, and medium to light green colored. It has a coarse texture with short upright seedhead stems that grow to about 3-5 inches. Centipedegrass is a low maintenance grass. It requires infrequent mowing. Centipedegrass has medium shade tolerance and limited traffic tolerance. When healthy, this full sun and slightly shade tolerant grass is aggressive enough to choke out weeds and other grasses. Centipede can also be considered a weed.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Screening - Summer [2]  Porous
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
Drought Tolerance [2]  Medium
Fire Tolerance [2]  High
Frost Free Days [2]  6 months 20 days
Growth Form [2]  Stoloniferous
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Summer, Fall
Growth Rate [2]  Rapid
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Propagation [2]  Sod, Sprig
Regrowth Rate [2]  Moderate
Root Depth [2]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  None
Seeds Per [2]  568479 / lb (1253282 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Prostrate
Structure [3]  Grass
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  Rapid
Height [2]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 8 Low Temperature: 10 F° (-12.2 C°) → 20 F° (-6.7 C°)
Light Preference [2]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Very Rich
Water Use [2]  Moderate
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Herpetogramma phaeopteralis Guenée (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Crambidae), Nastaran Tofangsazi, University of California, Riverside, Steven P. Arthurs and Ronald H. Cherry, University of Florida, October 2012. Latest Revision: September 2015
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0