Bermudagrass is a warm season turf species that thrives in warm temperatures and will outcompete other desirable species during the summer months. Bermudagrass is classified as a weed because it is slow to green up in the spring and turns brown at the first frost. The stiff leaves are thin, tapering to a point. The ligule is a fringe of long hairs. Zoysiagrass resembles bermudagrass closely and is also a warm-season grass species.
Zoysia has a rolled vernation as opposed to the folded vernation of bermudagrass.
The leaf blades are slightly wider than bermuda, but the rest of the characteristics are basically the same. Control of spreading grasses is usually attempted with a nonselective systemic herbicide like glyphosate. Gluphosinate, on the other hand, is not systemic in the plant and will not provide effective control of spreading grasses. Best results are seen when the weedy plants are young, fully green, actively growing, and not under drought stress. The mother plants are easily killed, but often the weed will regrow from the stolons or rhizomes.