It requires less mowing than bermuda or St. Augustine grasses and is often called lazy man's grass. Centipedegrass remains green throughout the year in mild climates, but leaves and young stolons are killed during hard freezes. It does not have a true dormant state and resumes growth whenever temperatures are favorable. The stolons of centipedegrass are slender, branching, rooting at the nodes and terminating in a slender flowering stem. Sessile spikelets are 3-3.5 mm long.
Oblong glumes about equal.
Caryopsis about 2.0 mm long, narrowly elliptic. Adaptation and Use . Centipedegrass is best adapted to sandy, acid soils where annual rainfall is in excess of 40 inches. It tolerates very low soil fertility levels and thrives on moderately fertile soils. Fertilization rates should not exceed 2 pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 sq.