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| A covering of mowed vegetation PLUS the medium (soil) in which the grasses are growing. |
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| The PLANT COMMUNITY consisting of certain species in the Poeceae forming a continuous ground cover which persists under regular mowing and traffic. |
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| Harvested turf (grass plus roots and soil) |
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| Science and practice of establishing and maintaining turfgrass |
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| Encompasses labor supervision, record keeping, budgeting, and cost accounting as well as culture |
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A closely mowed, highly manicured turfgrass maintained for a specific purpose
◦Types: golf, bowling, tennis |
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| Originate and persist in a region |
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| Adapt and persist but not originate from the region |
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| Any Plant of the Poacea Family (Cereals, Forages, Bamboo), Parallel Venation, Monocot: Having One Cotyledon (Seedling Leaf) in the Seed |
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Monocot
Leaf, Floral, Stem, Seed, and Ovary descriptions |
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one leaf (at germination)
Floral parts in sets of three
leaves long tapered blades with parallel venation
stems: vascular bundles are scattered
seeds: contain one cotyledon
does not contain ovaries |
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Dicot
Leaf, Floral, Stem, Seed, and Ovary descriptions |
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two leaves (at germination)
floral parts in sets of four or five
leaves broad to narrow leaves with netted venation
stems: vascular bundles aranged in a circle
seeds: contains two cotyledons
contains ovaries |
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| genus for all blue grasses |
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| Cultivars differ in what? |
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| Cell that divides or enlarges (in grass it is in the crown), not all plants contain this tissue. |
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Converting sunlight to energy
12H2O + 6CO2 + light
Water Carbon
dioxide
C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O
Sugar Oxygen Water |
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| Warm season Grasses (C-?) |
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~WARM SEASON VS COOL SEASON GRASSES
C-4 Warm Season
-evolved in the tropics
-More Ps efficient waste less energy
-Continue to grow in heat
-fertilize in summer* |
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| Cool season grasses (C-?) |
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C-3 Cool Season
-Do not need fertilizer in late June, July and Early August
-When temperature rises - growth slows
-Roots die in summer when heat or drought stressed |
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| Roots that produce new plants and spread underground |
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| Roots that produce new plants by spreading above ground (runners) |
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| Grass has _________ roots. |
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| Three identifying characteristics of a ligule |
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| Three types of leaf blade collars. |
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| Three types of auricle identifications. |
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| Three types of sheath margins |
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| split, closed, split-overlapping |
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| Adventitious Roots are at the top or bottom of the root structure in grass? |
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| Seminal roots are at the top or bottom of the root structure in grass? |
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| Entire flower head with all blossoms above the flowering culm |
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| Turf quality is measured in what two categories? |
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| What 4 measures are taken for visual quality of turf? |
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| Color, Texture (leaf width), Density, Uniformity |
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| 7 measures of functional quality of turf? |
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| Rigidity, Elasticity, Resiliency, Yield, Verdure, Rooting, Recuperative Capacity |
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| Golf Green VS Highway Turf |
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Gold green: aesthetic, frequent mowing, irrigated often, fertilizers, pesticides, high maintenance, very expensive to maintain
Highway Turf: Utilitarian, mowed less frequently, rain for water, low maintenance, low budget |
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