What Does Bermuda Grass Looks Like?

If you like Bermuda grass in your lawn then the identification and information about the Bermuda grass will be of your interest. Bermuda grass can be identified as a low-growing, wiry perennial that has two types of shoots. The aboveground are known as stolons and belowground are known as rhizomes. In Bermuda grass the stolons and rhizomes are capable of rooting in the soil, thus creating new plants as they grow out from the original plant or even after they are cut and left on moist soil. In areas where the soil is particularly not disturbed, rhizomes can be shallow and may be 1 to 6 inches in length. But areas where the soil has been spaded or tilled deeper than 6 inches, or against solid structures such as building foundations or walls, the rhizomes of Bermuda grass can be deeper than 6 inches.

Leaves of the Bermuda grass are smooth and pointed with a conspicuous ring of white hairs at the fusion of the blade and sheath. The prostrate stems of the Bermuda grass usually have a papery leaf sheath at each node. These stems root at the nodes in moist soil. Flowering stems are generally upright and bear a terminal group of three to seven spike-like branches that usually originate in a single whorl on the tips of the stem. The flowering stem is similar to that of crabgrass with the only difference that the branches of the crabgrass are sometimes closer.