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Eremochloa ophiuroides
Also called Lazy Man's Grass
Centipede grass is a low-maintenance warm-season lawn grass that spreads by stolons to form a dense sod. It thrives in mild climates and needs little feeding, but it is shallow rooted and poor in drought.
Eremochloa ophiuroides, or Centipedegrass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. Used as a warm season lawn grass, it forms thick sods and spreads by stolons.
Centipedegrass is a low maintenance grass as it requires infrequent mowing and has low fertilization requirements. Centipedegrass has medium shade tolerance and limited traffic tolerance.
It is shallow rooted and has poor drought tolerance. Centipedegrass survives in mild climates without several hard freezes. With light freezes it will turn brown but recover and re-green as the temperature rises. It does well in sandy and acidic soils.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eremochloa ophiuroides 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.
