St Augustine Grass Raleigh Variety

Augustine stenotaphrum secundatum is a variety of warm season grass with various cultivars widely used in warm frost free and coastal areas of the united states.

St augustine grass raleigh variety.

This is the most widely grown variety of st. Some cultivars such as raleigh perform well in cooler areas experiencing frosts. Bitter blue this grass is very good for shady properties. Raleigh grass is drought tolerant and can handle traffic as long as it s not excessive.

Raleigh is a coarse textured st. Doing well in full sun but tolerating shade are its best quality. The two most readily available varieties are as follows. Augustine grass is the only one that isn t shade tolerant.

Raleigh has been known to yellow during the peak summer heat and isn t known for growing aggressively during cooler. Its ability to fill in thickly choke out weeds quick growth and. Still some cultivars of st. As well as offer free advice.

For larger quantities and for our other grass varieties we either deliver directly for our customers or if they prefer we can bring grass pallets they order to our office for pickup. Raleigh st augustine grass a medium green colored texture. Augustine with medium green color raleigh grass which is a cold hardy st. Floratam this variety of st.

Augustine was released by the florida and texas agricultural experiment stations in 1972 as a st. Augustine grass tolerate shade better than others. Augustine are bitterblue deltashade captiva delmar and seville. The cultivars least suited to the shade are common palmetto floratam and floralawn.

It is most popular in florida among homeowners since it thrives best in the direct sunlight many florida neighborhoods provide. It is also excellent at choking out weeds. It is cold hardy and shade tolerant but requires 3 to 4 hours of direct sunlight a day. We deliver and install.

Floratine classic jade and raleigh varieties also do well in the shade. Augustinegrass cultivar was first discovered on a lawn in raleigh north carolina and released to the public by north carolina state university in 1980. Augustine decline sad virus and chinch bug resistant selection but it lost its resistance in the 1980s as the bugs adapted. Also susceptible to brown patch disease.

St augustine grass is the most popular warm season grass. Augustine grass can be planted in northern florida because of its lower temperature tolerance. Augustine is also a weed resistant grass and generally does not require the annual use of preemergent weed treatments. Augustine is the only grass that we keep here at our office for people who stop by for small quantities of grass.

Palmetto its deeper root system makes this variety slightly more shade and drought resistant as well as cold tolerant than raleigh. This variety of st. It is one of the more cold tolerant varieties of this species of grass and it grows more slowly which means you. Augustine grass in texas.

It has broad leaves of medium green color and a coarse texture.