What Kind of Grass Do I Have?

The fastest way is to photograph a single blade up close and let our identifier match it. You get the grass type, a confidence score, and a starter care plan in about 15 seconds. If you'd rather check by hand, look at blade width, the tip shape, how the new leaf is folded or rolled in the bud (vernation), and whether the grass spreads by runners or grows in clumps. Our manual identification guide walks through each of those signals.

Yes. A sharp close-up of a single blade in natural daylight gives the model the clearest evidence. Wide shots of the whole lawn do not work well because blade details disappear. Fill the frame with one or two blades for a better result.

Yes. Your first identification is available with no account or payment required. Creating a free account adds more identifications each month and lets you keep your results.

Accuracy depends on the photo. A score below 50 percent is shown as the best regional guess, while 50 to 69 percent is shown as a Good Match with alternatives to compare. A sharp, daylight close-up gives the model the best evidence.

It covers the grass types most common in the US — Bermudagrass, Zoysiagrass, St. Augustine, Centipede, Bahia, Buffalo, Kentucky Bluegrass, Tall Fescue, Fine Fescue, and Perennial Ryegrass. For an ornamental, native, or pasture species outside that list, we'll usually return the closest match plus a confidence score so you know it isn't a sure thing.

Your ZIP narrows the candidate list to grass types that actually grow in your climate, which improves accuracy a lot. It also lets us tune the care plan to your region's frost dates, summer highs, and soil-temperature trends.

You can still narrow it down by hand. Whether your grass is warm-season or cool-season, how wide the blades are, and how it spreads will get you most of the way there. Our look-and-feel identification guide covers the manual method step by step, and the grass-type guides let you compare your lawn against reference photos.

A grass-type result with a confidence score and alternatives, a region match, a short care-plan preview tuned to your grass and ZIP, and links into our long-form guides if you want to read more on mowing, watering, or fertilizer timing.