Persistence of Overseeded Cool-Season Grasses in Bermudagrass Turf

Table 6

Persistence of three overseeded species one year after seeding as affected by foramsulfuron application timing in 2004 and 2005 for the second experiment.^a

Species	Foramsulfuron application	Plants per m^2
		Trial 1	Trial 2
Intermediate ryegrass	None	68.2 b	112.2 a
Hybrid bluegrass	None	3.7 b	9.5 b
Italian ryegrass	None	168.2 b	180.7 a
Intermediate ryegrass	March	30.0 b	90.3 a
Hybrid bluegrass	March	0.2 b	8.8 b
Italian ryegrass	March	413.1 a	178.9 a
Intermediate ryegrass	April	55.7 b	65.4 a
Hybrid bluegrass	April	3.4 b	11.1 b
Italian ryegrass	April	183.4 b	180.1 a
Intermediate ryegrass	May	40.1 b	60.4 a
Hybrid bluegrass	May	18.1 b	17.2 b
Italian ryegrass	May	183.2 b	170.3 a

^aMeans within a column with the same letter are not significantly different according to the Fisher’s protected least significant difference test at the 0.05 level.