Exam 21: Selecting the Proper Grass

What type of grass is Kentucky bluegrass?

The presence of wheat in a grass seed mixture will be referred to as what type of seed?

What daytime temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) favors the growth of cool season grasses?

Turfgrasses are among the oldest plants used for landscaping.

The growing point of turfgrass is at the ____________________, not at the tips.

Certain grasses possess greater resistance than others to insects and disease pests.

Because of the difference in the size of their seeds, a pound of coarse-textured grass seed contains ____________________ seeds than a pound of fine-textured grass seed.

What label must appear on the package of grass seed to give a breakdown of the contents of the seed packet?

Grass seed plants produce new leaves only in the spring.

The percentage by weight of pure grass seed is called its ____________________.

Stoloniferous plants differ from rhizomatous plants in that their horizontal shoots are sent out ____________________ ground.

Bunch-type grasses require more seed and ____________________ spacing in order to cover an area quickly.

Some weed seeds are extremely undesirable and difficult to eradicate. What term is applied to identify them?

What characteristic of a grass is determined by the width of the grass leaf?

What type of grass is Bermudagrass?

What is the preferred daytime temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) for warm season grasses?

_________________________ is the percentage by weight of material in the package that will not grow.

Rhizome and stolon-producing grasses tend to reproduce slower than bunched-type grasses.

A combination of two or more cultivated varieties of a single species is a ____________________.

A ____________________ is a horizontal underground stem.