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Cynodon dactylon
Also called Bermuda Grass, Bahama Grass, Common Couch, Bermuda Quick Grass, Bermunda Quick Grass, Coarse Kweek, Common Couch Grass
In Singapore: Bermuda Grass, Bahama Grass, Kweek, Doob, Couch, Star Grass, Bermuda Tiff Dwarf, Rumput Minyak, 狗牙根, 百慕达草 (Naturalised in Singapore)
Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) is a fast-spreading warm-season grass that forms a dense mat by creeping stolons and rhizomes. It thrives in heat and full sun and goes dormant and brown in winter or dry spells.
Cynodon dactylon, commonly known as Bermuda grass or as couch grass in Australia and New Zealand, is a warm season grass found worldwide in warm and tropical climates. It is native to Europe, Africa, Australia, and much of Asia and has been introduced to the Americas.
Despite its common name, C. dactylon is not native to Bermuda but is an abundant invasive species there. In Bermuda, it has been known as crabgrass, also a name for Digitaria sanguinalis.
Cynodon dactylon is widely cultivated in warm climates all over the world between about 30° S and 30° N latitude, and in regions that receive between 625 and 1,750 mm (24.6 and 68.9 in) of rainfall a year, or less, if irrigation is available. For example, in the United States, it is grown mostly in the southern half of the country.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cynodon dactylon by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
