Salinity slows the germination of bentgrass, ryegrass, and tall fescue as well as other grasses.
Fifty seed of each cultivar were placed on pre-moistened germination paper in petri dishes and then sealed with parafilm. These conditions are ideal for rough bluegrass germination. Seed was considered germinated if both a shoot and root were visible to the eye with a magnifying lens. Experimental design was split block with salinity level as the main block and cultivar randomized within salinity level. There were nine replications of each treatment.