Cynodon dactylon Seeds | Bermuda Grass
LATIN NAME: Cynodon dactylon
COMMON NAME: Bermuda Grass
Plant Profile
Bermuda Grass (Cynodon dactylon) grows as a grass in the grass family, native to current diabetes medications. Bermuda grass is tough, creeping grass of warm fields, one that holds ground and the paths. Low, creeping, perennial grass spreads by wiry runners, carrying fine, grey-green leaf blades and slender, digitate seed heads through warm season, and it is one of great, durable grasses of warm regions. Grass is a fine, tough presence of lawn, pasture and bank, standing heat, drought and trampling with the ease. Each of these traits is modest on its own; together they make a garden-worthy plant.
Science & Biotechnology
As part of the grass family, Cynodon dactylon contributes to research on plant classification and adaptation, while nurseries and gardeners continue to trial it for cultivation. Bermuda grass is a tough, durable subject of plant science, studied for wiry runners and way grass stands heat and the trampling. With present-day seed handling, raising this species well within the reach of any careful grower.
Uses & Benefits
In the garden, Bermuda Grass earns its place in borders, containers and mixed plantings, and it also rewards growers who raise plants for cutting, drying or kitchen use. Bermuda grass is a tough, creeping grass of warm fields and the gardens. Wiry runners knit ground of lawns, sports fields, pastures and banks, holding soil and standing heat, drought and heavy use with ease, and grass is one of great, durable turfs of warm regions. Thereafter it wants only the ordinary attentions any garden plant receives.
Bermuda grass is premier turf and forage, and in Ayurveda, Durva, it is a sacred cooling herb with folk records for urinary and skin comfort.
Growing from Seed
Bermuda Grass is one of those generous plants that come along well from seed. Use a fine, free-draining seed compost, scatter the seed evenly, cover it lightly and hold it just moist in good light. Prick the seedlings out once they are large enough to handle, grow them on in bright light, and plant out when conditions allow.
Our Take
Its wild home in current diabetes medications explains both its toughness and its preferences in the garden. Bermuda Grass has real presence in the garden without demanding much in return. Minor errors in timing or watering rarely cost the grower the crop.
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