Carpet Grass

Axonopus compressus · Warm-season, perennial, C4

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Carpet Grass

Grass Category

Lawn/Turf

Hardiness Zones

USDA Zones 8-11, with low cold tolerance and susceptibility to frost dormancy.

About This Grass

Forms a dense, coarse-textured light green turf reaching low heights. Produces slender, two-branched seed heads resembling a crabgrass spike.

Blade Characteristics

Wide, flat blades with blunt, rounded tips and distinctively ciliate margins. Folded vernation with a very short membranous ligule and no auricles.

Growing Information

Growth Habit

Stoloniferous, spreading rapidly by flat, branching stolons with rooting nodes.

Sunlight & Water Needs

Thrives in full sun to partial shade. Requires moist to wet soils and tolerates poor, acidic soil poorly suited for other turf.

Mowing & Maintenance

Mow at 1.5 to 2.5 inches regularly during the growing season. Low maintenance requirement with minimal fertilizer needs.

Identified on 9/27/2026