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Zoysia japonica (Korean lawngrass)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Structure [3]  Grass
Height [2]  8 inches (0.2 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Zoysia japonica

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Point Pelee National Park II 5764 Ontario, Canada

Predators

Balanococcus takahashii (Takahashi lawn mealybug)[4]
Cervus nippon (Sika deer)[5]
Heliococcus zoysiae <Unverified Name>[4]
Herpetogramma phaeopteralis (tropical sod webworm)[6]
Phenacoccus elongatus[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 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
♦ 5Cervus nippon, George A. Feldhamer, Mammalian Species No. 128, pp. 1-7 (1980)
♦ 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
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