Zoysia

Plant Characteristics

Habit		grass
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Origin:	✈	SE Asia

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	sun, part-sun

Scientific Names

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Read about Zoysia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Zoysia (after Karl von Zoys, an Austrian botanist). Gramineae. Low creeping maritime perennials, sometimes used for lawns and putting-greens. Propagated by cuttings of the rhizomes. Flowers in a close spike-like panicle; spikelets closely appressed, 1-fld., awnless, the single glume coriaceous, acute, compressed, inclosing the lemma and palea.— Species 4. S. E. Asia and Australasia. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Genus of 5 warm season, creeping grasses, used for lawn turf. Grow from both runners and rhizomes. Sharply pointed stiff leaves are rounded to a little flattened, and may have hairs by the base. Leaf margins are smooth and surface can bee fine to coarse in its texture. Short stalks produces little sheathed spikes or spikelets with just one flower on it.

Cultivation

Usually planted late spring/early summer as springs or plugs. Adapt to majority of soils in full sun, but can also tolerate shade.

Species

Selected species and hybrids:

• Zoysia 'Emerald' (Zoysia japonica × Zoysia tenuifolia)
• Zoysia japonica
• Zoysia tenuifolia

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
• Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881926248

External links

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