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Description: Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon), shown in the images above, is found throughout the world, and is very common in the southern United States. This is a warm season, perennial grass and is widely used for lawn grass, pasture and hay feedstuffs. Usually, bermuda grass is planted with legumes such as alfalfa or clover. Coastal bermuda grass, was created by the Georgia Coastal Plain Research Station in 1938. This variety of bermuda grass has longer and larger leaves, stems and rhizomes, greater frost tolerance, and is more resistant to disease. It grows to be about 4 to 18 inches tall and is established by planting sod, crowns, or pieces of runners. The sod is broken up into small pieces and dropped 2 to 3 ft apart in furrows on a plowed field. Bermuda grass grows best in hot weather and is planted in the late spring to midsummer. This grass is a very good summer pasture for grazing cattle.

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