Types Of Bermuda Grass With Pictures

Seedland has provided this page to help you select and purchase the best bermuda grass seed or plugs for your lawn, sports field, golf course, pasture, forage and hay production, commercial landscape and more. Learn the differences in the various bermuda grass varieties before you purchase.

Bermuda grass is a perennial sod former, with a dark green color, spreading by primarily above ground rhizomes and stolons. The most economical and popular way to plant bermuda is from seed. Bermuda grass plugs are available as is bermuda grass sod. Bermuda grass develops into a low growing, good quality turf grass, lawn, or pasture grass for forage and is a prolific hay producer.

Bermuda grass is a grass that has a wide range of uses. Whether you are a farmer in need of a good pasture grass, a lawn professional or home owner in need of a turf-type grass for your lawn, sports field, or golf course there is a variety of bermuda grass to satisfy your needs. In fact there are now dozens of varieties of new improved Bermudagrass varieties for the Professional Turf expert or home lawn enthusiast to choose from to create his or her "perfect" lawn. As well as quality bermuda grass for pasture and hay production.

READ MORE ABOUT THE BERMUDA GRASS VARIETIES FOR PASTURE USAGE.

Common Bermuda Grass

Common Bermudagrass is still one of the most planted varieties in seed form. Common Bermuda Grass is more economical than the vegetative selections. Benefits are dense growth, is fast to establish, low cost of seed along with good overall characteristics make it a popular choice for lawn and pasture needs. We sell an improved form of common bermuda seed at common bermuda seed pricing - Sahara Bermudagrass is an excellent choice where price is a factor.

The common Bermuda grass also has a high degree of insect and disease tolerance. It is well adapted to salt spray and coastal settings and has an extensive root system for drought tolerance. Overall it is a low cost, persistent, aggressive vegetation.

Improved Common Bermuda Grass Seed & Plugs

Seedland sells several turf-type "seeded" improved varieties. "Improved" common bermuda grass types are mostly seeded varieties and are darker green, deeper rooted, medium textured and moderately denser compared to the common Bermudagrass. They are general purpose, turf-type Bermuda grasses used for lawns, parks, golf courses, sports turfs and much more. These bermuda varieties should be used in areas where improved characteristics are desired when compared to common bermuda but quality and level of maintenance will be lower than required for the vegetative hybrid improved bermuda grass cultivars.

MEDIUM QUALITY BERMUDAS

Medium quality bermuda grass varieties are now available in both seeded and vegetative (sod and sprigs) established varieties. The newer varieties are finer and can usually be mowed lower and look noticeably different from common varieties. For a nice lawn or for sports field applications most any of the Medium Quality Bermuda grass seeds or seed blends make excellent choices and are considered fairway quality varieties (used on basic type golf fairways).

Some medium quality bermuda grass seeds are Mohawk, SR 9554, and LaPaloma. In Bermuda grass seed blends Triangle Blend is probably the most popular. Other turf type Bermuda seed blends in the medium category include, La Prima and Pennington's Premium Bermuda Grass Seed Blend.

Mowing Medium Bermuda Grass Varieties

TRANSITION ZONE CHOICES

Mohawk, La Prima and LaPrima XD, and Yukon are excellent choices for cooler climate areas (transition zone states) where lower winter temperatures often cause winter kill in common Bermudagrass. Mohawk and Yukon are the most "cold tolerant" and higher quality bermuda in a seeded form that will survive cold winters with the least amount of winter kill damage.

PREMIUM FAIRWAY & LAWN QUALITY

For top quality, PREMIUM fairway quality bermuda grass turf used for sports fields, lawns and other uses where a thick, fine, dense low-mowable (green heights) grass is needed... the Princess 77, Yukon, and Riviera Bermudas are the best choices in premium bermuda grass seed. The Prima XD Blend is on the high end of medium input and makes a beautiful dense lawn with a slightly more economical cost. Princess 77 and Yukon will provide you with compatible turf quality to Tif-419 lawns.

Bermuda grass plugs are also used in premium quality applications. Seedland recommends Bermuda Grass Plug varieties Tifway-419 and Celebration.

Mowing Premium Bermuda Grass Varieties

Premium bermuda grass varieties are usually to be mowed with a conventional mower for height above 1". Mowing below 1" requires that a reel mower be used. They look their best at heights from 1.5 to 2.5 inches, but can usually accommodate heights as low as as 3/4 inches.

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Improved Bermuda Grass Seed Varieties For Lawn & Turf

• Sahara: is a seeded variety that is an improvement over the common variety. It is wear tolerant, drought tolerant and has a dense turf. Excellent for athletic fields, pastures, forage and parks areas with a high degree of traffic. Low growing, low fertilization schedules and beautiful green color. Mow lawns at 1-1 ½ inches. -- Learn more about Sahara Bermuda Grass.
• Mohawk: is a seeded turf type variety with improved cold tolerance that is used in lawns, pastures, for hay production and more. Improved to provide more cold tolerance survival of low winter temperatures in the Northern transition zone area. Cold tolerant varieties such as Mohawk generally are slightly slower to green-up in spring, as part of their cold tolerance genetic makeup tends to keep them dormant slightly longer than less cold tolerant Bermuda varieties. Learn More About Mohawk Bermuda Grass Seed.
• Princess 77: Pennington's Princess 77 is a one of the newer "high quality" fairway type certified Bermudas developed out of a private breeding program. Its dense texture and good color, coupled with low mowing heights make it a popular choice for warm season areas of the Southern US states for sports fields, parks, stadiums, golf fairways and home lawns. Learn More About Princess 77 Bermuda Grass Seed.
• Riviera: Riviera Bermuda Grass Seed is a certified seed that produces a superior turf quality bermuda grass with excellent winter hardiness. Riviera bermuda grass establishes fast from seed and has improved resistance to spring dead spot. Highest quality-rated Riviera bermuda grass ranks first overall for winter kill resistance, drought tolerance, color, spring green-up and percent of living ground cover in spring. Learn More About Riviera Bermuda Grass Seed.
• Yukon: Bermuda grass seed is a new highly ranked certified Bermuda that also has good cold tolerance. It exhibits excellent cold tolerance and superb turf quality. Yukon is the golf course manager's top choice for excellent tees, fairways and roughs throughout the transition, tropical and sub-tropical zones. It also is excellent as a lawn or turf grass for home owners. It grows well from Florida to North of Tennessee. Yukon is highly ranked in the NTEP trials. Learn More About Yukon Bermuda Grass Seed.
• LaPaloma: LaPaloma exhibits short plant height which is a distinguishing characteristic among available seed propagated varieties. This bermuda grass is noted for good stolon length and for rapid cover and fill in on planting sites – important for earlier opening and use of planted projects. LaPaloma has a finer leaf texture than most bermuda grass varieties, improved cold tolerance, and has shown better persistence under low light conditions caused by overcast, cloudy conditions, or shade from trees and structures. Good for golf tees, fairways, roughs, sports fields and high quality lawns. It is included in Bermuda grass Blends such as La Prima. Learn More About LaPaloma Bermuda grass seed.
• SR 9554: SR 9554 Turf-Type Certified Bermudagrass seed is a multi-purpose Bermudagrass variety suitable for use on lawns, golf course tees, fairways and roughs, municipal parks, lawns, sports fields, cemeteries and roadsides wherever Bermudagrass is adapted worldwide. SR 9554 bermuda grass is also noteworthy due to it's long stolon length which provides rapid cover and fill in on newly seeded sites. The noticeably shorter inter node length makes this bermuda grass have a higher density, and thus a higher quality turf than most "common" bermuda grass species and commercial seeded varieties. Learn More About SR 9554 Bermuda Grass Seed.

Improved Bermuda Grass Seed Blends For Lawn & Turf

• Bermuda Triangle Blend: This is one of our most popular Medium Quality Certified Bermuda Seed Blends. It is used extensively for sports fields, play grounds, home lawns and even on fairways. Triangle Blend is a professional turf blend of 3 turf type varieties from Pennington Seed. Generally includes a mix of Sultan, Sydney and Mohawk. Learn more about Learn More About Triangle Bermuda Grass Seed Blend.
• Premium Pennington Bermuda: Premium is a blend of bermuda grass seed varieties selected from such as Yuma, Sultan, Sydney, and Mohawk. - Available now in 1 and 5 lb. packages for planting smaller lawn areas. This Premium Bermuda Grass Seed Blend, from Pennington Seed, contains premium bermuda grass seed varieties that are a deep green color, maximize fertilizer performance and grow a denser, deeper root system. Learn More About Pennington Premium Bermuda Grass.
• LaPrima Blend: An attractive 2-way certified Bermudagrass seed blend of turf varieties packaged by Seed Research of Oregon. La PRIMA is an excellent resource for the transition zone turf grass manager. La PRIMA is especially designed for new plantings and use in lawns, golf course fairways, roughs and tees, municipal parks, commercial landscapes and all types of sports fields. Learn More About LaPrima Bermuda Grass Blend.
• La Prima-XD: Is on of the newer turf type blends with good color, density and turf quality developed by Seed Research. Drought and Cold tolerant with a high leaf density. A perfect choice for any high-end turf grass project, including golf tees, fairways and roughs, sports fields, parks, commercial landscapes and premium lawns. Read more about Learn More About Prima XD Bermuda Grass Seed Blend.

Information on the care and inputs required for the various bermuda grass varieties.

WE SUGGEST PRIMA XD, MOHAWK, YUKON, or LA PRIMA
IF YOU ARE PLANTING IN A COOLER TRANSITION AREA (North of Atlanta GA).

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Bermuda Grass Seed For Putting Greens

Currently Princess 77 and Yukon are some of the latest improved varieties that would suffice on a home putting green, with seeds now available. Costs of these seed are higher than common bermuda ... but compared to sodding a similar hybrid variety for comparable quality, they are usually much cheaper to establish. You will find these varieties used for home greens where a perfect green quality is NOT required. While used for some home greens they are NOT green quality varieties and are not use for greens on most golf courses (For greens you need a hybrid quality GREEN variety.)

These improved seeds are generally in limited supply because this grass is a very fine type suitable for golf course use and even home putting green usage.  Princess 77 and Yukon seeds are fairly expensive (Often selling for 8-10 times the price of common) as they are more difficult to produce... and are currently only available in limited quantities with demand often exceeding supply. Riviera and Yukon generally sell out each spring due to limited production. Supplies of Princess are also short but lately have been available year round.

Improved Bermudas That Are Sodded or Sprigged By Vegetative Means

Ormond has medium texture and turf density and has about the darkest green with blue tint of the Bermuda grasses. Ormond was introduced in the early sixties and has since been a success for athletic fields, golf course use. The variety of this grass is not sold to the public. Bermuda grass mite and dollar spot disease are its major problems.

Tifdwarf was introduced in the sixties and has a dark green color and is extensively used for putting greens and due to the high maintenance requirements it is not used for lawns. It is a very dark green, very low growth habit, with dense turf. And normally requires over seeding in the winter and comes back as soon as the weather warms up. It is susceptible to caterpillar and mole cricket damage in the areas frequented by these pests.

Bermuda Grass Plugs Sold By Seedland

Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Plugs are an improved variety that is vegetatively established. Used extensively on sodded Football and Baseball fields. Also used on many golf course greens in the south. The closest to this variety in a seeded Bermuda would be Princess 77 , Prima XD Blend, or Yukon. Of these three Yukon probably becomes the closest to looking the same, however all varieties planted side by side will exhibit certain differences in texture and color. The best option if trying to improve / increase the density of a hybrid Tif lawn is to overseed all areas of the lawn with the replacement variety to try to minimize any visual differences the eye may observe. Tifway 419 grass plugs tolerate more wear and more able to resist weed invasion. It is more resilient in winter months when the grass is dormant.

Celebration Bermuda Grass Plugs offer exceptional performance across a wide spectrum of applications. For uses as residential lawns to sports field, Celebration Bermuda grass lawn plugs create a superior turf grass that is durable, has exceptional recovery, is soft, drought resistant and has an exceptional beauty that is hard to match in a turf grass.

See our informational site on grass plugs- www.lawnplugs.com

Bermuda Grass Hybrid Variety Sods

NOTE: Hybrid varieties do NOT produce seeds - To plant or replace these varieties you must obtain and use either plugs, sprigs or sod. Contact a local landscape or sodding company as to availability of these varieties in your area.

Tifgreen has a beautiful dark green color, and has a ground hugging growth making it ideal on golf courses, athletic fields used for tennis, softball, baseball, and in countries where lawn games such as croquet, cricket, lawn bowling badminton is popular because of the fine texture and density. It is a high maintenance grass requiring watering, fertilization and frequent mowing to retain the low even height it is popular and is probably the most used of the Bermuda varieties.  

Tifgreen II is an improvement over the Tifgreen version for better resistance to colder weather and nematode infestations. It develops as full a growth for the lush look needed for low mowing potential.

Tiflawn is an older version and was developed for lower growing ability, denseness, good texture, and like other Bermudas grows fast and repairs quickly and this makes it an excellent choice for athletic fields, lawns with high traffic areas and parks. And like the majority of the Bermuda grasses has a good tolerance to drought.

Tifway is similar to Tifdwarf in the intensity of color and with the medium texture of most the Bermudas with its strong strength being its resistance to pests such as the Bermuda mite.

TIFWAY II is the next improvement over Tifway and is said to have a better resistance to nematode infestation and can stand the cooler temperatures. It is not as durable as Tiflawn and like many of the improved Bermudas takes a good maintenance program to keep the lawn in a-one shape.

FloraTex ™ is one of the Bermudas developed in Texas and Florida and is an improvement over the common varieties and has a medium texture that is not as fine as the Tif varieties and requires less fertilizer and has better drought resistance. This variety is vegetatively planted and used in finer lawns.

There are many, many more of both sodded (vegetative) and seeded varieties available to the consumer to plant. Some are actual varieties that came out of public (university) or private breeding programs. Some are simply selections that a particular sod company has decided to name and sell as it's "own" private label named variety.

Bermuda Grass Resource Links - Planting Seed & More

• When To Plant Bermuda Grass Seeds for best success?
• What do we mean by Premium, Medium and Basic input bermuda grasses?
• Directions on Establishment Of Bermuda from seeds
• Concerns about Seed head production or Pollen production?
  
• USE OF SEEDED VARIETIES FOR GREENS?
  Seeded varieties are generally NOT recommended for high quality putting greens - the premium quality bermuda grass seeds are planted in golf course fairways. If the highest quality and true ball roll is not a requirement, then the premium seeded varieties can also work satisfactorily for a basic home type green.
• Overseeding Tifway 419 with a seeded variety?
• Read How to Plant Your Lawn with seeds

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