Photo of the week: green bermuda in dormant zoysia

There is a big difference between bermudagrass (Cynodon) and zoysia when soil water content is reduced. Bermudagrass will remain green and keep growing (for a while) when zoysia has already gone into a dormant state.

This photo was taken in an unirrigated zoysia rough in western Japan after five weeks with no precipitation in the summer of 2024. This meant to be a rough of Zoysia japonica, but there is some bermudagrass present as a weed. The bermudagrass is usually…