Types of Cool season Grasses

-Kentucky Bluegrass: Cool-season grass - dark green color and dense, beautiful appearance, medium leaf texture with excellent leaf uniformity. Forms a strong sod via rhizomes.

-Fine Fescue: Cool-season grass - deep green color - finest grass blade of any lawn grass - upright growth habit creates a pleasing uniformity - has rapid germination and seedling establishment.

-Tall Fescue: Cool-season grass - medium to dark green color, moderate density - more extensive root system than any other cool-season turfgrass. Texture ranges from coarse to medium for newer turf-types. A bunch-type grass.

-Ryegrass: Cool-season grass - moderately dark green with good density and fine leaf texture - known for its rapid establishment rate - produces attractive, tough leaves and low growing crowns that create a stable turf - easy to maintain.

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