Paspalum notatum {bahia grass} is tough, coarse, and drought-and-shade tolerant, for southeast USA.
Creeping Agrostis stolonifera {bent grass} is short, soft, fine, and perennial, for northern putting greens.
Cynodon dactylon {Bermuda grass} {devil grass} is short, soft, and heat-and-drought tolerant, for Sun Belt and sport fields.
Poa pratensis {bluegrass, lawn} {Kentucky bluegrass} is cold-tolerant, short, and soft and is the most-popular lawn grass in northeast and north-central USA.
Eremochloa ophiuroides {centipede grass} is acid tolerant, for southeast USA and Hawaii.
Grasses {fescue, fine} can be short, soft, and fine-leaved or needle-leaved. Chewings fescue is Festuca rubra commutata and is sand and acid tolerant. Creeping red fescue is Festuca rubra. Hard fescue is Festuca longifolia and is short and cold tolerant.
Festuca arundinacea {fescue, tall} is tall or broad-leaved, is heat and drought tolerant, and used in tough and coarse pasture grass.
Lolium multiflorum {ryegrass, annual} is annual used in southern regions but is not heat tolerant.
Lolium perenne {ryegrass, perennial} is fine and soft.
Paspalum vaginatum {seashore paspalum} is from South-African sand dunes, is like Bermuda grass, and is for salty soil.
Stenotaphrum secundatum {St. Augustine grass} grows fast and is coarse, for south and west USA.
Grasses {zoysia grass} can be stiff Japanese lawn grass (Zoysia japonica), stiff and flat Manila grass (Zoysia matrella), and wiry fine Korean grass (Zoysia tenuifolia).
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