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  • Grasses
    • Annual Ryegrass
    • Bahiagrass
    • Bermudagrass
    • Buffalograss
    • Carpetgrass
    • Centipedegrass
    • Creeping Bentgrass
    • Fine Fescue
    • Kentucky Bluegrass
    • Perennial Ryegrass
    • Rough Bluegrass
    • St Augustinegrass
    • Tall Fescue
    • Zoysiagrass
  • Diseases
    • Turf Diagnostics Lab
    • Algae
    • Anthracnose
    • Brown Patch
    • Copper Spot
    • Cream Leaf Blight
    • Damping Off
    • Dollar Spot
    • Fairy Ring
    • Gray Leaf Spot
    • Gray Snow Mold
    • Large Patch
    • Leaf and Sheath Blight (Mini Ring)
    • Leaf Spot
    • Microdochium Patch
    • Nematodes
    • Powdery Mildew
    • Pythium Blight
    • Pythium Root Dysfunction
    • Pythium Root Rot
    • Red Leaf Spot
    • Red Thread
    • Rust
    • Slime Mold
    • Spring Dead Spot
    • Summer Patch
    • Take-All Root Rot
    • White Patch
    • Yellow Patch
    • Yellow Tuft
  • Insects & Other Pests
    • Key to Turfgrass Insect Damage
    • Turfgrass Insect Tracking Maps
    • Turf Insect Pests
    • Annual Bluegrass Weevil
    • Bermudagrass Mites
    • Ground-Nesting Bees
    • Chinch Bug
    • Cicada Killer Wasps
    • Clover Mite
    • Crane Fly Larvae
    • Crayfish
    • Cutworm
    • Earthworm
    • Fall Armyworm
    • Fire Ants
    • Fire Ants in Pastures
    • Nuisance Ants
    • Green June Beetles
    • Ground Pearls
    • Hornets
    • Hunting Billbug
    • Japanese Beetle
    • Millipedes
    • Mole Cricket
    • Moles
    • Nematodes
    • Rhodesgrass Mealybug
    • Scoliid Wasp
    • Sod Webworm
    • Springtails
    • Sugarcane Beetles
    • Twolined Spittlebug
    • Voles
    • White Grubs
    • Wireworms
    • Yellowjacket
    • Zoysiagrass Mites
    • Monitoring for Turf Insects
    • Light Traps
    • Pheromone Traps
    • Linear Pitfall Traps
    • Pitfall Traps
    • Sticky Card Sampling
    • Vacuum Sampling
    • Night-Collecting
    • Soil Sampling
    • Soapy-Water Flush
    • Pollinators in Turfgrass
    • Pollinator BMPs in Turfgrass
    • Current Research
  • Weeds
    • Annual Bluegrass
    • Annual Sedge
    • Barnyardgrass
    • Blackberry
    • Blackseed Plantain
    • Broadleaf Plantain
    • Broomsedge
    • Buckhorn Plantain
    • Bulbous Buttercup
    • Carolina False Dandelion
    • Carolina Geranium
    • Carpetweed
    • Cats Ear Dandelion
    • Common Chickweed
    • Common Dandelion
    • Common Lespedeza
    • Common Ragweed
    • Common Vetch
    • Corn Speedwell
    • Cudweed
    • Curly Dock
    • Cutleaf Evening Primrose
    • Crowfootgrass
    • Cylindric Sedge
    • Dallisgrass
    • Dichondra
    • Dogfennel
    • Dollarweed
    • Doveweed
    • Facelis
    • Field Pansy
    • Florida Betony
    • Globe Sedge
    • Goosegrass
    • Green Foxtail
    • Green Kyllinga
    • Ground Ivy
    • Hairy Vetch
    • Hairy Buttercup
    • Hairy Bittercress
    • Hop Clover
    • Horseweed
    • Indian Mock Strawberry
    • Ivyleaf Speedwell
    • Japanese Stiltgrass
    • Johnsongrass
    • Lawn Burrweed
    • Large Crabgrass
    • Mouseear Chickweed
    • Mugwort
    • Nimblewill
    • Oldfield Toadflax
    • Orchardgrass
    • Parsley Piert
    • Persian Speedwell
    • Pink Purslane
    • Prickly Lettuce
    • Prostrate Knotweed
    • Purple Deadnettle
    • Purple Nutsedge
    • Red Sorrel
    • Roundleaf Greenbriar
    • Sandbur
    • Sericea Lespedeza
    • Smallflower Buttercup
    • Smooth Crabgrass
    • Spiny Sowthistle
    • Spotted Spurge
    • Thin Paspalum
    • Virginia Buttonweed
    • Velvetgrass
    • White Clover
    • Wild Violet
    • Wild Garlic
    • Yellow Foxtail
    • Yellow Nutsedge
    • Yellow Woodsorrel
  • Turfgrass Field Day
  • Register for Email Alerts
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    • NC Sod Producers Association
    • NC Sports Field Management Association
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    • Overview & Mission
    • Funded Research
    • Updates
    • Research Symposiums
  • Publications & Factsheets
  • Our Research Facilities
    • Lonnie Poole Golf Course
    • Lake Wheeler Field Lab
    • Sandhills Research Station
  • Tools & Diagnostics
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  • Academics
    • 4 Year Course Outline
    • Academics Overview
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    • Short Course Participants
  • Paths to CALS
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2026 Turfgrass Field Day - Raleigh Registration

Published - July 8, 2025 Read
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Center Update: Biology and Management of Turf Diseases in NC: Focusing on Root-Knot Nematode and the Turfgrass Microbiome

Published - June 29, 2026 Read
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Center Update: Investigation of the Turfgrass-Infesting Weevil Complex (L. maculicollis and L. anthracinus) and New Interactive Pest Scouting Tools for Stakeholders

Published - June 24, 2026 Read

News From TurfFiles

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Center Update: Organic Matter Measurement and Management on Sand-Based Putting Greens

Published - June 17, 2026

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Bermudagrass Athletic Field Maintenance

Published - June 8, 2026

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New Publication: Disease Management in Landscape Turf

Published - June 8, 2026

From: Turf Pathology
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Summer 2026 Pest Update Video

Published - June 1, 2026

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Slime Mold Outbreak (Hint: Don't Panic!)

Published - May 28, 2026

From: Turf Pathology
Soil Temperatures in Raleigh since March 1, 2026
Environmental Stress and Turfgrass Performance This Spring

Published - May 20, 2026

From: Turf Pathology
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Warm-Season Grass Green Up and Managing Turfgrass under Drought Conditions

Published - May 18, 2026

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2026 Sod Growers Survey

Published - May 5, 2026

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