
GRASS 
CENTIPEDE GRASS (Eremochloa ophiuroides ) 
is a hardy, rapidly spreading, low growing peren- 
nial grass, in appearance between Bermuda and Car- 
pet grass. The thick, shortjointed, heavy runners 
which root readily form a dense sod and as the 
grass is very aggressive it will rapidly crowd out 
weeds and foreign grasses. 
Imported about 1919 from China by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, it was thoroughly tested 
and tried in various parts of the South and became 
commercislly available in Florida in 1925. Since that 
time it has been widely planted and has become our 
most popular and satisfactory lawn grass. 
As is usually the case there was at first some re- 
luctance on the part of most of us to try “Something 
New” but this new CENTIPEDE grass behaved so 
remarkably, was so far superior to our other lawn 
grasses, that its fame rapidly spread. Today fine 
CENTIPEDE LAWNS may be found from Central 
Florida north through Carolina and west along the 
Gulf Coast to Texas. 
As CENTIPEDE grass is highly drought resistant 
and has a very deep going root system, its use is es- 
pecially recommended for poor sandy soils, although 
an equally great number of splendid plantings may 
be found on heavy black loam and throughout the 
yellow and red clay regions. We know of Centipede 
grass growing on pure white beach sand where it 
“escaped” the fairways of a golf course along the 
