West Virginia lawns run on tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, and perennial ryegrass, wit...
West Virginia lawns run on tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, and perennial ryegrass, wit...
Connecticut lawns run on four cool-season grasses: Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, perennial ryegra...
Nevada runs two lawn climates and two water rulebooks. Las Vegas sits in a turfgrass transition zone...
New Mexico lawns split by elevation, not latitude. Kentucky bluegrass, tall fescue, ryegrass, and fi...
Idaho lawns are built on four cool-season grasses, with buffalo grass as the low-water outlier. Nort...
New York lawns run on four cool-season grasses, and Cornell has a specific mix for each situation. H...
Oregon is two lawn states divided by the Cascades. Perennial ryegrass and fine fescue run the wet we...
Massachusetts lawns run on Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, perennial ryegrass, and tall fescue. Her...
Hawaii is the one state with no cool-season lawn at all. Here are the warm-season grasses that actua...
Utah lawns run on Kentucky bluegrass, with tall fescue, fine fescue, and ryegrass in the mix, buffal...
Kansas sits on the transition zone where warm and cool season grasses meet. Here are the six grasses...
Nebraska lawns run on Kentucky bluegrass, eastern tall fescue, and a well-established native buffalo...
Most Iowa lawns are dominated by four cool-season grasses. Here is how to tell them apart, which one...
A field guide to Washington State lawn grasses: the ryegrass and fine fescue common west of the Casc...
A field guide to New Jersey lawn grasses: the cool-season species Rutgers recommends, the zoysia you...
Mississippi is warm-season lawn country, but the right grass changes from the Gulf Coast to the Tenn...
Wisconsin lawns run on four common cool-season grass groups. Here is how to identify each one with p...
The types of grass that actually grow in Pennsylvania lawns, how to tell them apart with photos and...
Illinois stretches from bluegrass country in Chicagoland to the true transition zone south of I-64....
Maryland sits in the transition zone, which means no lawn grass is perfectly happy here. This guide...
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A synthesis of the 40 state lawn guides we have published, each grounded in university extension adv...
Arkansas is a transition zone led by Bermuda and zoysia, with St. Augustine and centipede in the sou...
Minnesota is cold-limited, cool-season lawn country led by Kentucky bluegrass, with fine fescue for...
Indiana is cool-season lawn country led by Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue, with zoysia in the so...
Kentucky is the Bluegrass State, but tall fescue is actually its best lawn grass. Here are the commo...
Arizona splits by elevation: Bermuda overseeded with winter ryegrass in the low desert, cool-season...
Missouri is a transition-zone state led by tall fescue, with cool-season grasses north and zoysia so...
Colorado is semi-arid, cool-season lawn country where water is the deciding factor. Here are the com...
Tennessee sits in the transition zone, growing both cool- and warm-season lawns. Here are the common...
Louisiana is warm-season lawn country led by St. Augustine and centipedegrass. Here are the common t...
South Carolina is warm-season lawn country led by centipedegrass, with tall fescue in the cool Upsta...
Virginia is a transition zone, growing both cool- and warm-season lawns led by tall fescue. Here are...
Oklahoma is a transition zone that dries out east to west, so it grows both warm- and cool-season la...
Ohio is cool-season lawn country. Here are the four common types of grass in Ohio, compared by sun,...
Michigan is cool-season lawn country, no warm-season grass survives the winters. Here are the four c...
Alabama is mostly warm-season grass, with tall fescue up north. Here are the common types of grass i...
Florida is warm-season grass country, led by St. Augustine. Here are the common types of grass in Fl...
California grows both cool- and warm-season lawns, and water is the deciding factor. Here are the co...
North Carolina is the transition zone, so it grows both cool- and warm-season lawns. Here are the co...
Most Georgia lawns are warm-season grass, with tall fescue up north. Here are the common types of gr...
Almost every Texas lawn is a warm-season grass. Here are the common types of grass in Texas, from Be...
Live in the transition zone and tired of a lawn that fries in July and thins out by March? Here are...
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