warm-season grasses

Tropical- or southern-thriving grasses.

Warm-Season grasses are tropical grasses and thrive during the summer heat in the south. Most are not winter hardy and do not stay green during the cold spells of winter. Warm season grasses will turn brown in late fall and not green-up again until warm weather returns in the spring. Warm-season grasses are best suited for lower and middle South

regions which includes the Coastal areas from Virginia south to Georgia and west through Alabama to Texas. Zoysia grass and more cold-tolerant grasses such as Bermuda can be grown in the upper South which includes the mountainous regions from Virginia and North Carolina west through northern Tennessee and Arkansas.