Cynodon

Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

Bermudagrass

Natural range: Old World Tropics,  escaped across most of the U.S., including Florida

Habitat:  Turf species, escaped and Weedy

Recognition: Narrow-bladed strongly rhizomatous turfgrass with a characteristic inflorescence: the spikes radiating from one point.  The spikes smaller in diameter (1 mm) than most of the other grasses with radiating spikes.

Florida status: Escaped, weedy turfgrass. This is an important cultivated species available in many cultivars.