types of grass?
Types of Grasses found in America. Very few turf-type grasses currently growing in America are native to our land. Buffalograss is probably the most common native turfgrass that has been adapted to be grown as a lawn and then only in special circumstances.
In this transition zone, neither Warm Season nor Cool Season type grasses are uniformly successful. However, several of the Cool Season type grasses such as Kentucky bluegrass and perennial ryegrass and tall fescue, do well across Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Missouri. Tall fescue is the best choice in Tennessee, North Carolina, northern Georgia, northern Alabama and the Texas panhandle.
Bentgrass is a fine-textured, cool-season species that spreads by stolons and is able to tolerate very close mowing heights of 1/4 to 3/4 inch (.63 to 2 cm). Bentgrass is the finest-bladed, lowest-growing, and highest-maintenance species of all the cool-season turfgrasses. It makes a nice looking lawn, but requires a great deal of care with frequent mowing, watering, dethatching, and fertilizing. This is the grass that is used on many putting and bowling greens.