Alabama OTPS Study
Annual bluegrass Clumped winter annual, spikelets
Armyworms Feed anytime of day, ash grey moths, birds
Billbugs Main Pest of zoysia and Bermudagrass
Broadleaves Showy flower and netlike veins
Brown patch Most damaging warm season turf grass, rhizoctonia solani
Chickweed Mat-forming winter annual
Chinch bugs St augustinegrass, rice size,
Curly Dock Taprooted perennial, reddish brown fruit, 3 wing like projections
Cutworms Feed at night, hide at day
Dallisgrass 3-7 alternating branches of spikeletts
Dandelion Deeply taprooted, perennial, milky juice
Dichondra Pony foot, creeping perennial
Dollar spot Sclerotinia homeocarpa, summer and early fall
Florida Bettiny Rattle snake weed
Goosegrass Crowfoot, silver crabgrass
Grasses Hollow rounded stems
Grey leaf spot St Augustinegrass
Ground pearl Under ground, scale, feed on roots, cultural control only
Johnsongrass Coarse Perenial, Does not persist under frequent mowing
Leaf spot Bermudagrass
Most destructive insect Pest on alabama turf, $7 million, tawny,
Mole crickets
southern
Mullein Densely-hairy or woolly biennial (6ft tall)
Pigweed Tall annual, erect smooth to hairy stems
Rapid spreading, perennial, 3 ranked basal leaves, seed head
Purple nutsedge
purple to reddish brown
Sedges Triangular stems
Smooth crabgrass 2-6 fingerlike spikelets, spreading summer annual
Sod web worms Small green fecal pellets, chew off grass just above thatch line.
Southern crabgrass Spreading summer annual, 2-9 fingerlike spikelets
Southern mole cricket Gray, U shaped
Spring dead spot Bermudagrass
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Annual bluegrass Clumped winter annual, spikelets
Armyworms Feed anytime of day, ash grey moths, birds
Billbugs Main Pest of zoysia and Bermudagrass
Broadleaves Showy flower and netlike veins
Brown patch Most damaging warm season turf grass, rhizoctonia solani
Chickweed Mat-forming winter annual
Chinch bugs St augustinegrass, rice size,
Curly Dock Taprooted perennial, reddish brown fruit, 3 wing like projections
Cutworms Feed at night, hide at day
Dallisgrass 3-7 alternating branches of spikeletts
Dandelion Deeply taprooted, perennial, milky juice
Dichondra Pony foot, creeping perennial
Dollar spot Sclerotinia homeocarpa, summer and early fall
Florida Bettiny Rattle snake weed
Goosegrass Crowfoot, silver crabgrass
Grasses Hollow rounded stems
Grey leaf spot St Augustinegrass
Ground pearl Under ground, scale, feed on roots, cultural control only
Johnsongrass Coarse Perenial, Does not persist under frequent mowing
Leaf spot Bermudagrass
Most destructive insect Pest on alabama turf, $7 million, tawny,
Mole crickets
southern
Mullein Densely-hairy or woolly biennial (6ft tall)
Pigweed Tall annual, erect smooth to hairy stems
Rapid spreading, perennial, 3 ranked basal leaves, seed head
Purple nutsedge
purple to reddish brown
Sedges Triangular stems
Smooth crabgrass 2-6 fingerlike spikelets, spreading summer annual
Sod web worms Small green fecal pellets, chew off grass just above thatch line.
Southern crabgrass Spreading summer annual, 2-9 fingerlike spikelets
Southern mole cricket Gray, U shaped
Spring dead spot Bermudagrass
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