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Stenotaphrum secundatum (St. Augustine grass; St. Augustinegrass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) (also known as Charleston grass in South Carolina and Buffalo Turf in Australia) is a warm-season lawn grass that is popular for cultivation in tropical and subtropical regions. It is a medium- to high-maintenance grass that forms a thick, carpetlike sod, crowding out most weeds and other grasses.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Screening - Summer [2]  Porous
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
Drought Tolerance [2]  Low
Fire Tolerance [2]  High
Frost Free Days [2]  6 months 20 days
Growth Form [2]  Rhizomatous
Growth Period [2]  Summer, Fall
Growth Rate [2]  Rapid
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Propagation [2]  Sod, Sprig
Regrowth Rate [2]  Rapid
Root Depth [2]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  None
Shape/Orientation [2]  Prostrate
Structure [3]  Grass
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  Rapid
Height [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Very Rich
Water Use [2]  High
Foliage Color [2]  Green

Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Helicotylenchus multicinctus[7]
Mesocriconema xenoplax[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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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
♦ 5Herpetogramma 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
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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